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USA Today goes with the developing story of the Arkansas schoolyard shootings, which also gets a lot of coverage on the other fronts.
The problem with the movie is that Helgeland doesn't seem to understand it either: It's just a line on which to hang a lot of shootings, head-bashings, and explosions.
If we were to discover that none of the killers in the various school shootings were in the habit of eating pancakes for breakfast, we would have established a correlation.
Both the NYT and WP quote an expert's observation that the recent trend of school shootings has accelerated from single specific victims to indiscriminate multiple homicides.
One possible explanation of the disconnect that the stories don't address: that the study ends with data from 1997, and 1998 and 1999 have been marked by some major school shootings.