"Resist the temptation to extrapolate details prematurely into a whole." The author of this article spent a decade researching the Columbine tragedy[1]. Here,

"Resist the temptation to extrapolate details prematurely into a whole." The author of this article spent a decade researching the Columbine tragedy[1]. Here, he's describing how readily mass tragedies and shooting sprees lend themselves to misinformation by the media and mythologizing by the public. We can think of the perpetrators as always being loner outcasts, but the effort to make sense of their motives isn't that simple. They might be clinical psychopaths or suicidal depressives or paranoid narcissists or something else. [1] - http://www.columbine-online.com/ http://www.columbine-online.com/