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In the aftermath of the shooting, there was a great deal of debate about what provoked the killers and whether anything could have been done to prevent the crime.
One of the most inspirational individual stories of the massacre is that of Cassie Bernall[?], a junior at Columbine. She was murdered by the gunmen in the school's library. Reportedly, she was asked by one of the assailants if she believed in God, and her simple response was "yes." She has since been exalted as a martyr by many. Her tale is retold by her mother, Misty Bernall, in the the book She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall[?]. Accordind to Mrs. Bernall, her hope for the book is "that [Cassie's] 'yes' inspires others to take their faith more seriously."
The massacre was one of the subjects of the film Bowling for Columbine, a documentary about violence in the US.
See school massacres.
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