Samuel Hengel put a .22-caliber Ruger, a Hi-Point 9mm Luger, two knives and 205 rounds of ammunition in a duffel bag. Then, on Monday morning, he walked out of his Porterfield, Wisconsin home for the last time—another young American boy going to school with guns, ammunition and intention.

The November 29 school shooting incident in northern Wisconsin, at time of publication America's latest, is being spun as a success of the post-Columbine system. A trained school staff and law enforcement levelheadedly defused a heavily armed student prepared to do the worst. But when police finally responded to the 911 call, more than two hours had passed since gunshots [...]

There are excerpts out from Dave Cullen's Columbine, which is supposed to be terrific-and which corrects a number of garbled facts about what took place during everyone's favorite school murder rampage.