“If my son Daniel was not one of the victims, he would be here with me today,” says the father of 15-year-old Daniel Mauser—one of the 12 students killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on 20 April, 1999. Speaking to the camera for Michael Moore’s documentary, Bowling for Columbine, Mauser’s father—choking, unable to sip even water—was not the only one utterly traumatised by the shooting; thousands have been enlisted as sufferers since that fateful day when 12th graders Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold stormed across the school with the intention to bomb it, failing which the massacre ensued. On the same day, the US achieved the feat of having dropped the largest number of bombs on erstwhile Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War, a point that Moore’s documentary does not miss. With school shootings in the US featuring regularly in the news today, the grim reality of Bowling for Columbine is, by no means, an artefact of the past.