Bowling for Columbine

Why They Did It In the year of 1999, a tragedy occurred at Columbine High School, in Colorado, when two kids by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris decided to shoot up an innocent high school. The two managed to kill twelve students, one teacher, and themselves. In Dylan’s early life he was gifted and involved in sports, but later in his life Dylan started having suicidal thoughts. Dylan wrote about pain, conflict, and suicide in his journal. The story quotes, “Death equaled freedom now;…

The school violence at Columbine High School was depressing. I got the chills from watching the video. On April 20th1999, a terrifying event happened at Columbine High School in Colorado. The school massacre involved two students, who were known as misfits. They have been planning the attack for 12 months. There was solid evidence leading up to the horrifying massacre killing 17 individuals including students and teachers. The gunmen did not have a specific group of students to target. The…

April 20, 1999, 24 people are injured and 15 people are killed including the shooters. The shooters are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Nobody knows why they did it exactly. Some people say it was because of bullying, violent video games, or even ‘dark music’ bands. I believe that Eric was a psychopath and Dylan was just depressed and here’s why. Dylan Klebold was depressed. We know this from his diary entries as he talks about suicide many times. Dylan wrote in his journal: “Thinking of suicide…

The Columbine school shooting was a mass murder of students and teachers at Columbine high school. The shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had been be planning this attack for about a year before they opened fire on the 20th of April in 1999. Dylan and Eric unleashed, killing 15 people total, 12 of which being students and one teacher. The other two? The other two people killed were Dylan and Eric, they took their own lives away. It would become the 5th deadliest school shooting in American…

Columbine. Some used to remember this as normal place to go to school. Now it’s remembered as the chain reaction of school shootings. Many students here weren't born before this terrible incident on April 20, 1999. It was a normal day at Columbine High School in Colorado when two bullied students decided they’d had enough, and went to shoot up the school. The the two students made a tape describing how they hated the bullies at their school and wanted revenge. Their names were Eric Harris and…

Fifteen dead, twenty-four injured at a high school in Columbine, Colorado. These were the headlines that shocked our nation on April twentieth nineteen ninety nine. Two Columbine High School students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, carried out this deadly shooting and left a community in turmoil with more questions than answers. What would cause two teenagers to go into a school and commit mass murder? Was it bullying? Was it madness? Was it the fact that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold just…

Sandy Hook Elementary School along with Adam Lanza’s gun: Sandy Hook has caused innocent lives to die in the act of gun violence. Adam Lanza’s main weapon of choice proved that he had clear intentions of doing the most harm. Today, Sandy Hook and Columbine both are in horrific mass shooting tragedies in the United States of all time tragic events. After Sandy Hook, we now want our own demands to end all gun violence. The only way we end all gun violence is by using our first amendment.…

Columbine shooting On a normal school day at Columbine High School, students were attending lunch and doing class work in the library not expecting anything in particular to happen. Actually no one in the U.S. expected or was ready for what came to be on April 20, 1999 to the 1,945 students attending Columbine High School. On April 20,1999 at 11:19 a.m. two Columbine students wearing trench coats went on a rampage outside of the school shooting students and staff. The students were Eric Harris…

frustration tolerance and norm erosion (Control theory, University of Portsmouth). Whilst I shall be providing critiques for the theory, I will also be heavily using the case study of the Columbine High shooting as supporting evidence. A strength of the containment theory is that there is evidence for the…

injuring 21 people at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. An interesting point to contemplate was the negative self-concept that both Harris and Klebold held. Throughout Harris’s diary journals he would document that he wanted revenge against anyone who he thought had ever wronged him: ‘I hate you people for leaving me out of so many fun things.’ It was also reported that both Harris and Klebold were unpopular students who were often targets of bullying, mainly by the Columbine athletes.…