Columbine

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…

Columbine The tragedy among youth, April 20, 1999; two troubled young men lash out their rage and depression on the high school they were cast out from; Columbine High, Littleton, Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the two adolescents that committed this heinous crime. Over all, these murders had caused thirteen deaths and twenty one, brutal injuries. Although, most of the deaths and injuries were by gunshot, many explosives were also used. The explosive were manufactured by Klebold…

At about 11:19 a.m. April 20 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold dressed in trench coats started shooting students at columbine high school, the weapons used by Eric were: Hi-Point model 995 carbine rifle, and Sawed-off pump-action Savage-Springfield 67H shotgun, now Dylan Klebold used: TEC-DC9 9-mm semi-automatic handgun, and Double-barrel Savage 311-D sawed-off shotgun, both carried various knifes and used bombs but most didn't go off. This was a huge Historical Turning Point in history, this…

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…

On the day of April 20th, 1999 a devastating disaster occurred. “Columbine is located in the southern end of the district, nestled just below the foothills of the Rocky Mountains”(Austin). This high school on the edge of the Rocky Mountains was put into a life threatening situation no other school would ever want to be in. Two boys, known as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold proceeded to shoot their highschool dead. At the end of the day thirteen died; twelve students and one teacher. “twelve…

On April, 20th, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 13 students and 1 teacher were shot dead by Dylan Klebold, age 17, and Eric Harris, age 18. On February 12th, 2008, 15-year-old gay student, Larry King, was shot twice and killed at E.O. Green Junior High, Oxnard, California, by 14-year-old McInerney. On May 21st ,2014, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both aged 12, stabbed their friend Payton Leutner, age 12, 19 times near a woods in their hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin…

instance. Bowling for Columbine draws your eye to one specific topic throughout the 2 hour documentary which is the gun control in America, how easy it is to get your hands on a gun and the Columbine High school massacre in 1999. Documentaries allow you to reflect on an issue within your society and engage with the world. Documentaries help you to see the bigger picture on an issue. Documentaries allow you to develop an opinion on an issue. Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine uses…

tragedy that took place on April 20, 1999. Columbine High School students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher and injured 21 additional students. The highly planned and intricate attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, and car bombs. The pair eventually took their own lives once they completed their task. (Cullen 18). The Columbine High School massacre will forever be…

If an evaluation process of mental health was put into effect with Eric and Dylan, perpetrators of the Columbine shooting, the violent act could have had a better chance at being prevented. Once the tragic event had occurred,Dave Cullen, author of Columbine, a novel on the horrific shooting that took place in Littleton, Colorado, revealed that Eric and Dylan both had mental illnesses, deeming Eric as a psychopath and Dylan as depressed…

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…