Solving The Columbine Incident

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It hard to answer whether the Columbine incident could have been prevented or not. I like to hope that it could have been, but I cannot say for sure. In today’s society most people chose to solve a problem with violence rather than with their words. I hope that if anything where to happen like this in the future that it can be stop before in escalates to that magnitude. I think that the biggest warning signs would have to be in that change in behavior of the criminals. Although I do not know a whole lot about the people responsible for this shooting had to have some change in their behavior that days before the incident. Someone must have notice this change. Maybe if the shooter got the help they needed before the escalated to this level

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