On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris, age eighteen, and Dylan Klebold, age seventeen, went on a shooting spree in their high school, murdering thirteen people and injuring more than twenty others before ending their rampage by committing suicide. This crime lead to a major, national debate on gun control and school safety, and an investigation to determine what influenced Harris and Klebold.
In the years following the calamity we call ‘Columbine’, America feared that adolescents would carry out similar attacks. Since this massacre, numerous teens have planned copycat crimes while others have made automatic weapons and plotted their use inside and outside of public places with many proceeding to take action making this the worst crime committed in the 20th century. …show more content…
The columbine Massacre was the first of its kind. Since that day over 944 mass shootings have taken place. It has been said that seventy percent of shooters have shot in either a school or work office with sixty percent of these crimes occurring so fast that they were over by the time police had arrived and in forty percent of these cases at least three people were
In the years following the calamity we call ‘Columbine’, America feared that adolescents would carry out similar attacks. Since this massacre, numerous teens have planned copycat crimes while others have made automatic weapons and plotted their use inside and outside of public places with many proceeding to take action making this the worst crime committed in the 20th century. …show more content…
The columbine Massacre was the first of its kind. Since that day over 944 mass shootings have taken place. It has been said that seventy percent of shooters have shot in either a school or work office with sixty percent of these crimes occurring so fast that they were over by the time police had arrived and in forty percent of these cases at least three people were