Eric Burdon

In the news in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999, two students entered Columbine High School armed with weapons. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered their own school, killing 23 students and teachers, and wounding 20. The two students were part of a group, who called themselves the trench coat mafia. This group had about a dozen juniors and seniors who were often…

More Highly Regulated Gun Control is an Effective Method of Reducing Crime Gun control generally refers to laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms. The actual definition of gun control varies greatly around the world, however, this is the most Americanized and generalized definition that I’ll stick with. Even though illegal gun trafficking is undoubtedly tied to juvenile gun violence and other crimes like drug dealing and gang…

Massacre of Tlatelolco’s Analysis Exactly Forty-seven years ago, on October 2, 1968, a large group of students filled the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco where the Mexican government massacred hundreds of these harmonious protesters and making of this event a dark day in history. The Mexican government’s actions shocked many people throughout the country because they did not expect the Mexican government to massacre the students with so much aggression and force. The…

To: David Wooly, Alma School District Administration From: Michele Ikenberry, Faculty Member Date: February 12, 2017 Re: Task Force for Alma School Protection Program In recent years protecting our students while at school has become a significant issue for our nation, and the thousands of individual schools throughout the country. Tragically, many of the worst mass shootings in our country have taken place in public institutions to include Columbine in 1999 with 13 victims, Red Lake,…

They entered the school from different doors and placed improvised bombs made from twenty pound propane cylinders at the doors. There were also bombs made from similar means in backpacks which the duo left in the cafeteria. Both Eric and Dylan exited the school. All the explosives except one failed to detonate and it only partially did so. Explosives experts stated if they would have detonated as planned, the loss of life would have been massive. In addition major structural damage to the…

Another example of rampage killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was brought upon the video. Both of these young men made a homemade bomb hoping to kill thousands, but when the bomb did not work they decided to shoot up the school. Boht of these teenagers can be described as mass murders. The killed serval people at school which was one location, within a few hours. Dylan Kledold was looked at through his diaries and was very depressed and suicidal. He talked about feeling like he did not…

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 and there were roughly ninety nine of these devices planted throughout the campus. Since Klebold was the brains of the operation, Harris played the part of the brawns. Eric Harris…

Introduction Almost 20 years ago, two high school students altered the public school environment as we knew it at that time. Granted, there were plenty of other incidents involving guns and school grounds, but none on this massive level. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold took the time to journal and plot the murders of their peers and teachers at Columbine High School in April 1999. The journals that were left behind tell just some of what they were experiencing; but no one could quite figure out…

Behaviors,” noting that “empirical estimates show that adolescents who suffer from depression face an increased probability of engaging in property crime” (Anderson, 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…

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…