Columbine High School

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…

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…

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;…

killing 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…

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…

Colorado, two shooters who were later identified as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who attended Columbine High School. Eric at the time was 18 years of age and Dylan at the time was 17. Facts concluded that the two had killed and wounded approximately 20 people, students and teachers included, before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide on school campus. It started inside the school by the library then moved to the cafeteria. Investigators also came to conclusion that the two…

When teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on their students at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 they struck fear into the hearts of parents and schoolchildren nationwide. By the time the pair committed suicide, 12 of their classmates and one teacher lay dead. It was, at the time, the deadliest school shooting in American history, creating a cloud of fear that hung-over schools around the country. But the massacre did not result in changes to America's gun control policies…

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…

School Shootings: Can Such Murderous Tragedies be Helpful? 74 dead. 41 wounded. 3 suicides. 59 innocent children murdered. These are the statistics of only three of the many school shootings that take place nationwide. Students and teachers were fatally harmed for no reason at all by troubled teens who struggled in their everyday lives. If they had been given proper help, would that have made a difference? If the schools had better security and safety precautions, would it have saved the…

fit in or they could be punished and later on harm other people. People often change not to stick out in certain crowds. The students in Prom Night in Mississippi have been trying not to stick out at school, but the topic of racism keeps coming up. These people have been racist to blacks during school because of what they have been growing up with and how…