On February 14, 2018 on a day that is famous for expressing love for another, Nikolas Cruz who was expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, opened fire at the school using a military-style semiautomatic rifle killing fourteen students and three staff members which has become the deadliest high school shooting in United States history (Sanchez). That day, I opened up my Facebook page preparing myself for the usual barrage of sickening relationship posts, but instead, horrible news greeted me of yet another mass school shooting. I was shocked, but not surprised, since I’ve come to expect this type of news in the current climate. After each shooting, the usual “thoughts and prayers” are given and then we move on until the next shooting happens and the cycle continues. However, the Parkland shooting seemed different and was sparking more
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On April 20, 1999, at 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing twelve students and one teacher and injuring twenty-one others before turning the guns on themselves (“Silence Broken"). This, at the time, became the worst high school shooting in U.S. history, which started a heated debate over gun control. There had been gun violence in schools before, but this shooting is the one in which most school shootings are compared. In a 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer, former FBI Agent Mary Ellen O’Toole, who has studied Columbine and Dylan Klebold, said: “Columbine was a different kind of shooting” (“Silence Broken”), meaning that this deadly event sparked a conversation and a need for change that today, nineteen years later, still has not happened. Never the less, it marked a progression of the series of incidents known as school shootings. Columbine happened before the internet became what we use today, before the surge of social
On April 20, 1999, at 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing twelve students and one teacher and injuring twenty-one others before turning the guns on themselves (“Silence Broken"). This, at the time, became the worst high school shooting in U.S. history, which started a heated debate over gun control. There had been gun violence in schools before, but this shooting is the one in which most school shootings are compared. In a 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer, former FBI Agent Mary Ellen O’Toole, who has studied Columbine and Dylan Klebold, said: “Columbine was a different kind of shooting” (“Silence Broken”), meaning that this deadly event sparked a conversation and a need for change that today, nineteen years later, still has not happened. Never the less, it marked a progression of the series of incidents known as school shootings. Columbine happened before the internet became what we use today, before the surge of social