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Columbine… The worst school shooting in the twentieth century… Why did Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris commit this gruesome act of violence? We all would like to think that we know the answers, but in reality, we’re far from knowing what was really going on in their minds. What were their motives? Were they bullied, or were they just going insane? Dylan Klebold was born in Lakewood, California. He was born into a passive and church going family. Dylan was in a program for the gifted in his…

In 2002, the critically acclaimed documentary “Bowling for columbine” was released by left-wing activist, Michael Moore, which displays his bias and negative opinion towards America’s second amendment and much of what it represents. Moore uses a vast variety of documentary techniques to illustrate the uncontrollable and hazardous nature of gun and general weapon accessibility in America and how changes are needed as it promotes violence. As seen in the film, Moore uses many documentary devices…

There has been long history of school shootings in the US. The first one happened in 1764 in America. This occurred when an American Indian entered the school and killed the principal and ten children. Another shooting happened in Salisbury, Maryland on March 9, 1873 between two teachers! Since the teacher rejected the other teacher to be in a relationship, the other got mad and brought a gun to school and shot them. These shootings all happened because there was no security there to stop it…

Bullying has a huge impact on Mass killings. A Perpetrator is a person who commits a crime. Perpetrators maybe going through many things such as illness, mental issues, and bullying, that causes them to kill the person that is bothering them. Columbine High school is one of the schools who have had a mass killing. First and foremost, bullying has a huge impact on mass killings. If someone keeps bullying a person every day, it bottles inside until you can’t take it anymore. Next thing you know,…

Mass shootings and mass murders in schools have become a heated argument again in the United States following the recent attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Nineteen year old, expelled student Nikolas Cruz pulled the fire alarm to lure students and staff out into the hallways where he opened fire on the victims using an AR-15 assault rifle. Cruz took the lives of 17 and wounded another 14 others before being subdued and arrested. This violence has reignited the…

Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech Massacre, University of Texas Massacre, Columbine High School Massacre, these are some of the most horrific school shootings in american history… gun control activists say it's the work of loose gun laws in America. What if the real reason wasn't loose gun control laws, it's the people who have access to these guns. People say that if 2011 gun ban in the uk brought gun crimes down to the lowest they have ever been why can that work here. The writing is on the walls,…

School shootings have been going on since Pontiac's Rebellion but there have been more than that one but those are one of the many that the people remember. A school shooting is when a “teen or a adult comes into a school and shoots up a school and hurts people some people count as a gun going off in a classroom” but that is not the definition. Why people do school shooting, how much they have went up, and how can prevent it from happening/ the sign of someone think about doing it. Some of…

The failed bombing and subsequent shooting of Columbine High School in 1999 was one of the most eye opening and unexpected events of the 90s. All shreds of normalcy disappeared for teens and parents alike as a safe haven for children was turned shooting gallery. Many images that came out of Columbine were striking, heart wrenching, or maddening, but the image selected portrays one of the rawest emotions coming out of the tragedy: the unmeasurable amount of mourning and loss felt in the affected…

Tyler Junior College When will it end? Madalyn Garrett Total Hours = 21 hours GOVT – 2305 Dr. Khosrowshahi November 6th, 2017 When will It end? The number of innocents killed change, the settings change, 13 at a high school, 26 at an elementary school campus, 49 inside a night club, 58 outside at a country music festival. The faces to remember change every time, but weapons are the only things that stay consistent. Most of the mass killings in the U.S. are from handguns, but often are…

This was the worst school shooting in the history of the United States. We will go over the facts, theories, and solutions that were directly linked with the Columbine High School Massacre. The theories that I will be using in this paper are the Social Control and Labeling. These theories go over self-identity and behavior of individuals which will be used to identity or to classify what categories these individuals belongs in. As well as the process of socialization and social learning skills…