Columbine High School massacre

nation. People watched the national coverage of the massacre that targeted elementary aged children, many as young as 5 years old. I thought then, that the American people would never let a child stare down the end of a barrel again. Sadly, I was gravely mistaken. Since Sandy Hook, five years ago, 7,000 more children have died from gun violence in the United States. Since Columbine, 187,000 students have been exposed to gun violence in their school. The United States is a nation of trauma—a…

Colorado, Columbine High School is most famously recognized for being one of the “deadliest school shooting in American history”, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Two high school students were to blame for this tragedy. Abc News reported that the shooters “slaughtered 12 students” and left others critically wounded with serious life threatening injures. School shooting in recent years have unfortunately become a prevalent issue in our society, they happen so often that high schools…

of been influenced by violent video games and music (Columbine High School shootings). Although some people argued their rage was stimulated through bullying. There was ultimately no proof of media being the main cause of the two teenage boys killing thirteen people, and later turning the guns on their selves. This event stirred up a lot of parents, who then soon after started really regulating the violent things their children viewed. Schools were also taking initiative to provide zero…

Columbine School Shooting April 20, 1999, this date for many parents, teachers, and students brings back memories of the horrific school massacre that occurred at the Columbine high school in Littleton Colorado. This event unfortunately claimed far too many lives, leaving many families, parents, students, and even officers with unanswered questions and filled with hatred and a lack of understanding. It was just like any other day,another Tuesday in fact filled at first with the usual…

Michael Moore 's Bowling for Columbine, a 2002 American film tries to explore various things that Moore suggested as the root causes for the Columbine High School Massacre, as well as some other acts of violence with guns. Moore’s documentary film aims at examining the culture of guns as well as violence in the United States to find out how the massacres were possible. Moore’s primary argument in the film emphasized that the majority of the Americans are kept frightened of each other, which is…

all the conflicts, for example the ones that Bowling for Columbine shows, the gun controversy has increased, especially in schools. There are many pin points for the occurrence of gun violence. The two most common are abuse, association with gangs, and guns. Schools imply laws that try to prevent these events from happening and protecting the youth from danger in schools. The problem has become a major factor that now before entering school you are required to go through a metal detector and…

In the documentary Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore suggests that the American society has been warped by guns and by the violence that surrounds them. As he sets out to explore the obscure reasoning behind the events at Columbine High School which claimed many lives, Moore supports his stance by incorporating statistics, and anecdotal evidence from Americans, demonstrating the easy accessibility to firearms and the harm caused by their use. Moore strives to illustrate this brutality as a…

twenty first grade students and six adults then him. Investigations conducted found out that he had suffered from mental illness and was obsessed with mass shootings. He had done plenty of research on mass shootings but in particular the Columbine High School massacre. Even though Adam suffered from mental illness, he refused to take medications. This is a constant problem with individuals with mental illness, as they are afraid of the effects of the…

Gun Control In America What is more important than the safety of our proud nation? Safety within this country has increasingly risen recently due to numerous political factors. However, it has been done the wrong way. We have been focusing on threats outside of this country as the problem. When the real problem is within our borders. The increasing number of guns have made no one safe in America and it is only going to get worse. There have been countless killings every day in the U.S.…

Mass school shootings has become the new norm for America people. President Obama once said after a shooting in an Oregon Community College in early October 2015, "Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it ... We have become numb to this”. Since the Columbine shooting, a high school in Littleton, Colorado, mass shooting has become a trend for Americans. Guns need to be off schools…