After much detailed research for a book I am writing entitled Ready to Pop : The Rise of Mass Murder in America, I have come to the conclusion that there are five factors in America today which have combined into a perfect storm to fuel mass murder including school shootings.

Eric Harris was one of the Columbine shooters commonly identified as the baby-faced, innocent looking one.  After the killings many people made the mistake of thinking that the harder, tougher looking Dylan Klebold must have drawn sweet faced Harris into the murderous plot.  We now know that it was the