Sometimes it feels as though Columbine was our first experience with school shootings. But it very much wasn't, as the town of West Paducah, Kentucky, can attest.

Videos:

• Very Bad Men: Michael Carneal

Articles and books:

• Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David J. Harding, Jal Metha, and Wendy Roth

• 1997 Kentucky school shooter denied parole

• COMMONWEALTH v. CARNEAL (2008)

• When Grief Wanted a Hero, Truth Didn't Get in the Way

• Carneal Recalls 1997 High School Shooting Rampage

• WHEN THE SILENCE FELL