Bowling for Columbine

thirteen classmates and then turned the barrel to themselves. The attack happened in Littleton, Colorado at a school called Columbine High school. The perpetrators were two students of the school. In less than an hour they managed to earn the title of deadliest American school massacre that was perpetrated by members of the student body of a school. A title that will belong to Columbine until April 16, 2007 when a student at Virginia Tech killed thirty-two students. Eric Harris was born on…

Columbine shooting This story is about some kids that went in to a school and killed people with machine guns. This school is currently the most popular high school in the worlds. There were 12 students and 1 teacher killed. They killed a girl named Rachel that was a senior and she was such a nice girl she started a chain reaction that is all over the world. The kids that killed Rachel killed themselves at the scene. The question is, should parents of the kids that killed the students be…

There is no questioning that in today's school system, one of the major issues is, and always has been, school violence. Which can range from a brawl amongst students, to more tragic events, for example, school shootings. Many of us have witnessed a fight in middle school or high school. Which usually have no permanent effects. But school shootings usually have a different outcome, on January 4, 2012, in my hometown of Brownsville Texas, a student from Cummings middle school was shot and killed…

routine. He went to work, and that was where he would learn the horror of what had happened earlier that day. What Holmes did not know yet was that at 11:19 am earlier that day, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold began “shooting fellow students outside Columbine High School, located in a suburb south of Denver” (History.com Staff). According to ABC news reporter Susan Donaldson James, by 11:19 am, they had killed twelve students and one teacher. Holmes soon saw on the news at his work that there had…

Savannah Mauck Mrs. Greenley Research Paper 1 February 2017 “Columbine shooting” On April 20, 1999, the most deadliest attack in any American high school history had happened (enimwikipedia.org). Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris decided to go on a killing spree on April 20. In 1998, Dylan and Eric were both arrested and sent to a juvenile program after they stole from a van (cnn.com). They both like violent video games, movies, and music (Brezina 23). Their parents had told the news that they were…

Do you feel safe today with all the gun violence going on in the world? Innocent people are getting shot by police. Mass murders in public places. Police getting killed for doing their job. For example, what happen on December 14, 2012 when 26 innocent people died at a school. At San Bernardino shooting 14, people were killed and 22 seriously injured. It seems today every time you turn on the tv there is something to do with gun violence. With that in mind, I believe the government should…

Last week was the eight year anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton CO. On April 20, 1999, two Columbine students came to school intending on killing as many people that get in their way, if that means by a gun, a bomb made out of a propane tank, or any of their grenades or devices made by hand. Twelve students and one teacher died because of the horror caused by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Eric and Dylan later committed suicide, but who are these kids? Another…

It was just a normal day at Columbine High School, after a long prom weekend. Students were just gathering together in the cafeteria eating lunch. While on Monday, April 20, 1999, two seniors by the name of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold called this massacre Judgement Day. This massacre “Judgement Day” was the largest massacre before the twentieth century. This shooting shocked the whole world, and it still is to this day. People till this day what motivate them to murder thirteen innocent people…

“I have bad news,” said Mr. Bannon. He continued and said, “Our president was shot and killed.” This is what Nancy’s high school teacher said in the middle of class on the day John F. Kennedy was killed. John F. Kennedy's assassination was traumatic around the whole country, if not the whole world. Nancy Zuber was willing to be interviewed on what she thought of the situation. At the time Nancy was a student in eleventh grade at reading high school in 1963. Nancy Zuber was sitting in her book…

15 brutal deaths occur in a singular day in a Colorado high school. Dave Cullen’s book Columbine scrutinizes the Columbine High School massacre along with its investigative reports, rumors and murderers. On April 20, 1999, two Columbine High School seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, fail to completely execute their meticulous plan to massacre. However, their open fire at their school rapidly horrifies their community and nation. The press arrives before the SWAT team penetrates the building…