Bowling for Columbine Essay

Columbine The tragedy among youth, April 20, 1999; two troubled young men lash out their rage and depression on the high school they were cast out from; Columbine High, Littleton, Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the two adolescents that committed this heinous crime. Over all, these murders had caused thirteen deaths and twenty one, brutal injuries. Although, most of the deaths and injuries were by gunshot, many explosives were also used. The explosive were manufactured by Klebold…

we knew it at that time. Granted, there were plenty of other incidents involving guns and school grounds, but none on this massive level. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold took the time to journal and plot the murders of their peers and teachers at Columbine High School in April 1999. The journals that were left behind tell just some of what they were experiencing; but no one could quite figure out the motive for the mass murder. Then there were no one to explain as both Harris and Klebold took…

is stunned and left with no response. I believe that this reflects the culture of fear that we, as Americans, live in, this will be discussed in greater detail later on. Littleton is home to Columbine High School, where the Columbine shooting took place. I had seen the news and read articles on Columbine, but I had yet to see the security camera footages. Seeing these footages of children running for their life haunts me, it breaks my heart and it made me fearful. Eric Harris and Dylan…

On the day of April 20th, 1999 Littleton, Colorado the whole country was shaken to its roots because of the tragedy which had taken place at Columbine High School. Two armed and highly dangerous students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had launched a full on premeditated assault on the school and its occupants. They reason for their attack was the hatred that grew within them for the school and its occupants due to its social cruelty, injustice and unfairness. They had premeditated this…

On April 20, 1999 two teens went on a shooting spree at Columbine high school. At about 11:19 am the two teens Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, began shooting fellow classmates outside of Columbine High School. The two then moved into the school where the shot down many more students in the library. Harris and Klebold killed 12 students, one teacher, and injured more than 20 people…

20 children and 6 adults dead, their futures erased from the earth as though they had no significance by Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. In today's society, large scale massacres such as this example are uncommon, yet produce widespread impacts that precipitate heated discussion from many different types of individuals. Composed by Wayne LaPierre, the executive director of the National Rifle Association, on December 21, 2012, “NRA: full statement by…

The first victim of the Columbine Shooting was Rachel Joy Scott. “I’m not going to apologize for speaking the name Jesus. I am not going to hide the light that God has put me. If I have sacrifice everything… I will (Laura Collins3). Rachel wrote in her diary “I lost all my friends at school, now that I have begun to ‘walk my talk,’ they make fun of me.” (Sachin 2) Rachel was picked on about her religion she lost all of her friends they judged her for her faith. Rachel was committed Christian.…

Columbine On April 20th, 1999 in the town of Littleton, Colorado the nation was horrified. Two high school seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed thirteen and injured twenty four before turning the guns and proceeding to take their own lives.1 This was the school shooting that changed everything. It opened people's eyes to possibilities of murder-suicides happening in schools. It didn’t just affect their little town or even the state of Colorado, it prompted national debate and made…

Within recent history, there have been an astounding number of incidents in which the safety of public and private school students has been jeopardized. Most of these incidents involve mass shootings, where many innocent lives of both students and teachers have been lost. On February 14th, 2018, the United States witnessed yet another one of these tragedies when a high school in Florida suffered the loss of 17 students and staff. As a student attending a high school with a population of over…

various crimes. Some of these crimes include: the Columbine High School Massacre, the Trayvon Martin Shooting, and the Charleston Church Shooting. Although, violence rates in America are steadily decreasing violence is still a major problem in America. First of all, American gun crimes have continued to claim innocent lives. For example, on April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed fifteen students at Columbine High School in Columbine Colorado. The duo placed several makeshift…