Columbine Shooting Theory

It was the morning of April 20, 1999, in a small town called Littleton, Colorado, two shooters who were later identified as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who attended Columbine High School. Eric at the time was 18 years of age and Dylan at the time was 17. Facts concluded that the two had killed and wounded approximately 20 people, students and teachers included, before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide on school campus. It started inside the school by the library then moved to the cafeteria. Investigators also came to conclusion that the two placed duffel bags contained explosives which failed to detonate prior to the shooting spree, there are a lot of speculations on what their motives were and who exactly they were …show more content…
Prior to the High School massacre, many believed the two teens had been bullied by numerous students that attended Columbine High School. Theories say that the two randomly chose their victims and cannot prove exactly the teens’ motives for the spree. There are a lot of different theories that could possibly relate to this crime but the closest possible theories could be social theory or choice theory, maybe it was just random but there are a lot of other things that it could also be but I am just giving the facts on what happened exactly at Columbine High School. It was also believed that the teens were part of a social outcast group, I do not believe that it could be problems at home because both of the teens had a good home and a solid family that always looked out for them, Harris’ father had been in the force and was a very well role model for him, both teens were very intelligent and played sports such as baseball and soccer during their years at Columbine. It is also believed that the students targeted athletes, Christian minorities or anybody that held some sort of label or that might have bullied them. According to their journals and news media, the two teens had been planning this a year prior to the shooting and also had been thinking of suicide, both teens were not model citizens so-called, they had been getting in a lot of trouble since their freshman year of high …show more content…
Throughout the years there had been numerous school shootings and we are trying to find new ways to avoid tragedies as such. The teens were violent masterminds and through investigations, it has been proven that they had been planning to bomb the school prior to the shooting, Our Law Enforcement agencies have come a long way in finding new ways to respond effectively to juvenile delinquency and better ways to target teens with problems or teens thinking about committing violent acts and helping them. Regardless, in my opinion, no matter how offensive and cruel bullying is, there is nothing worth the lives of many children and