Which section from the text best demonstrates the change in school shooters over time? A. “His mother was an alcoholic who lived with a series of violent men. In one two-
year stretch, he lived in 10 foster homes and was both sexually and physically
abused.” (Paragraph 21)
B. “That’s what Paton and Larkin mean: the effect of Harris and Klebold’s example
was to make it possible for people with far higher thresholds — boys who would
ordinarily never think of firing a weapon at their classmates — to join in the
riot.” (Paragraph 51)
C. “The prosecution saw someone who wanted to be Eric Harris and plainly
assumed that meant he must be like Eric Harris, that there must be a dark heart
below LaDue’s benign exterior.” (Paragraph 56)
D. “In the day of Eric Harris, we could try to console ourselves with the thought that
there was nothing we could do, that no law or intervention or restrictions on
guns could make a difference in the face of someone so evil.” (Paragraph 66)