Columbine High School massacre

understood. Ever since the 1999 massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been studying what motivates people to carry out these crimes. As part of our investigation into threat assessment, Mother Jones documented the chilling scope of the "Columbine effect": We found at least 74 plots and attacks across 30 states in which suspects and perpetrators claimed to have been inspired by the nation's worst high school massacre. Their goals ranged from…

argue that assault weapons serve no purpose in the hands of citizens, and in turn have made the United States the leader in firearm ownership and gun related deaths in the world. Mass shooting are growing at a tremendous rate in the United States, school shootings taking place in Littleton, Colorado, Red Lake, Minnesota, and…

February 2015! ! School Shootings! ! In the 20th century, there were no chains, locks, or cameras in the schools. Back in those days, parents worried more about their children’s grades, rather than their safety. Kids never really thought about bringing guns to school or any matter of that nature. Now that it’s the 21st century, schools are required to have locks on their doors and install cameras for a student’s safety. Kids, these days, constantly worry if someone will come into their school…

Paul Keegan the writer of ¨Video Games and Other Media Can Cause School Shootings” notes that, ¨Playing video games from the point of view of the killer is making some kids to start thinking and acting like assassins.” A video game called GTA (Grand Theft Auto), which is a very violent game, allows you to go out in public…

20th 1999 two student in columbine high school in Littleton Colorado fired over 900 bullet, killed 12 students and teacher and injured many. The gun control debate has always been very controversial and hated topic among the people in the America. But in recent years, with more shooting and killing events, this topic has been more important than ever. Perhaps, this question comes to everyone that why someone kills others with firearm? The documentary “Bowling for Columbine” asks same question;…

second birthday. You’re probably wondering, why my second birthday? I thought the same thing. Well, I was born on April 20, 1997. This date is well known for quite a few things, one of them being the tragic event of the Columbine High School Massacre. The Columbine horror was a school shooting committed by two of its very own students (Fast, Jonathan D.). Thirteen lives were tragically ended, by two young men whom took it upon themselves to play the role of God. Over twenty more individuals…

Students for Gun Free Schools states that students would not feel safe knowing that some students in their classroom are carrying a loaded weapon and therefore deter their education. In addition, during debates, those with strong opinions on certain issues will hesitate to express…

On April 20th, 1999, at 11:15 a.m., two gunmen opened fire outside of Columbine High School, a large suburban public school in Colorado, and started to close in on the building. The two perpetrators were not strangers to the district, in fact, they were students who were currently enrolled as seniors in the graduating class of 1999. The Columbine massacre was the first major school shooting that paved the way for many other violent attacks on masses of people in the future, left a scar on the…

Cesur, and Tekin 1). As Dave Cullen, author of Columbine, recounts, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, students of Columbine High School, committed this property crime. They broke into a locked van to steal computers. The police discovered Harris and Klebold, however, in an open field which resulted in a diversionary program as their punishment. Three months later, on April 20, 1999, Harris and Klebold committed a mass murder at Columbine High School, killing 13 individuals and injuring…

Sure, knives and fists are far more common than guns, but guns intensify the violence and increases the probability of death. Another incident, one that I hold very close to my heart, is the Virginia Tech Massacre. Seung-Hui Cho was born in South Korea in 1984 and became a permanent resident of the United States in 1992. This twenty-three-year-old was a senior at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University majoring in English, who massacred thirty-two…