John seemed to be offering a partial inventory of what could be wiped out in a Bubbacide when he wrote, in a 1991 essay, "We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches, and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners".
On another afternoon, a character named Austin Webb pleasantly described a new school of hunting called "hunt and release," in which you aim to wound the animal but not kill it.
Witnesses tell how children as young as 10 dropped out of school to hunt for gemstones and never went back.
In the 2007-8 school year, Hunts Point in the Bronx had the highest rates.
Then in his high school years hunting became his main interest.
They need to generate income from the house, whether as an upscale bed-and-breakfast, cooking school or hunting retreat.
As the village awoke in panic, the young killers, some of whom were recognised as pupils in the nearby school, started hunting down other prominent people.
His daughter said he spent his spare time painting the occasional sign for a church or high school ballfield, hunting raccoons, watching University of Alabama football and playing golf at least once a week.
For his new book Gun Guys: A Road Trip, Mr Baum travelled across the US and met a variety of gun owners, from those blasting automatic weapons in the desert to a school teacher hunting pigs.
There's no after school bow hunting league he can play on after school.
Parents don't want to become private investigators tracking down who really owns their school or hunting down teaching credentials or financial liquidity of schools.
