bring the shooters down
In 1999 a mass shooting occurred in a Columbine Colorado high school. Key features of that shooting have become emblematic and inspirational, much like the complex iconic symbols of the Nazis. Columbine became enshrined by these features: the killing instrument an AR-15; the target: children in a public school; a prior announcement of intent on social media; a militia-style clothing in black; age of shooter: 17-18; the shooting as a last stand with shooter’s death or suicide.
Crimes against humanity
Cruelty between people—extreme atrocities, torture, genocide—is part of the spectrum of human behavior that must be as old as our species. In just the last hundred years we have witnessed up close and from afar the holocaust, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the Balkan wars, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan wars, the Syrian war, the ISIS incursions, and now Ukraine. I would also include terrorist attacks, sex trafficking, the violent and sexual abuse of children, the seemingly endless mass shootings, racist inspired murders and on and on.