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    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 history. The shooting was only a small portion of the plan by Dylan and Eric. They had bombs planted…

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    On April 16, 2007 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado one of the deadliest school shootings in the history of the United States took place. Two teenagers by the name of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold rigged two bombs fitted inside duffel bags to explode in the middle of Columbine High School, when these bombs failed to detonate Harris and Klebold began there killing spree. Resulting in thirteen casualties and twenty injured before committing suicide (History.com). People have come up…

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    thoughts they are portraying. With Dylan and Eric they seemed to be normal guys from the outside, but the inside showed completely opposite. The closest friends of Dylan and Eric were even shocked from the tragic incident that the two boys were active in. The main theme shown to always know what is going on around you and be aware of the unknown, anything can happen even on a bright sunny day with two seemed to be normal guys. b. Growing up Eric Harris was a normal boy who loved…

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    The Columbine Catastrophe

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    The crime was the most exceedingly terrible high school shooting in U.S. history and incited a verbal political confrontation on weapon control and school security, and additionally a noteworthy examination to figure out what spurred the shooters, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17 (Gumbel, 2009). It's been more than a…

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    Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre on April 20th, 1999. Both were seniors at the school, both kept journals largely concerned with planning the massacre, and both killed themselves at the conclusion of the shooting. Both had been bullied severely, but had friends other than each other. Harris had a history of depression and suicidal thoughts, and was prescribed medication for this. Klebold had more severe depression,…

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    Mass Murder Case Study

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    There is a fad on the rise, and not the good kind. Although crime has been and continues to decrease, a contagion is occuring when it comes to mass murders, and specifically mass shootings in schools. Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, opened fire at his school in Roseburg, Oregon killing 10 people including himself. This paper will examine the details of this mass murder case and Harper-Mercer’s life leading up to the shooting and his death. The issues that will be discussed include Harper-Mercer’s…

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    Have you ever noticed a difference in America? Well there is a ton, just take a moment and look at all the different changes. In the story American History has proven my point. There is this little girl and she lives in a small town and there becomes some conflict. The girl's name is Elena she is a very kind sweet girl. Than a boy moves by her apartment in a upright house. His name is Eugene and he is a kind sweet guy but his mother is not. The sequence of there life background all leads up.…

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    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…

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    On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered a total of thirteen people. After this killing spree, the two killed themselves. The one question everyone is asking is why they killed innocent people. To this day their motive is still unclear. They had a plan to attack and kill as many people as possible before getting killed or killing themselves. Some view this as a horrific tragedy while very few see this as a deadly inspiration. If some view this as a deadly inspiration…

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    Columbine And Stereotypes

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    getting ready for school, not expecting anything but another lame school day. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, however, knew it wasn’t just another regular school day. For they had the intention to blow up their school with propane bombs and kill any and all survivors. And if it wasn’t for the faulty wiring in their beloved bombs’ timers…the result would 've been much, much worse. They’re goal…

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