Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

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    On Tuesday, April 20, 1999, two seniors approached Columbine High School in Littleton,Colorado at approximately 11:19 AM and proceeded to devastate the nation. There were 17 days until graduation when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students and one teacher before committing suicide in the school library. Immediately, a media storm of theories and disbelief evolved. In the months following the shooting, reports depicting the two as vengeful victims of bullying and the…

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    hatred, two seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, conducted a mass murder shooting at Columbine High School. This provoked fear and inspired a wave of other school shootings across the country. At 11:15 am, a mass school shooting occurred at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In order to understand the attack on April 20, 1999, we must examine the causes and effects it had on America so we can prevent another tragedy. Columbine has changed security…

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    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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    2007 when a student at Virginia Tech killed thirty-two students. Eric Harris was born on April 9, 1981 in Wichita Kansas and had an interest in joining the military. Harris has been described as someone who possessed above average intelligence and was . Dylan Klebold was born on September 11, 1981 in Lakewood, Colorado and had an interest in technology. Klebold has been described as shy and a follower. Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold were friends since…

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    shooters are middle-aged, because these frustrations and disappointments take years to accumulate. Moreover, there are mass shooters which fit this pattern but are not necessarily middle-aged. An example is, once again, the Columbine shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. They were 17 and 18 years old respectively, but had long suffered frustrations since their early life. Their motivations and early frustrations will be expanded later on. Most shooters, however, are middle-aged men with…

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    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…

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    American high school history had happened (enimwikipedia.org). Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris decided to go on a killing spree on April 20. In 1998, Dylan and Eric were both arrested and sent to a juvenile program after they stole from a van (cnn.com). They both like violent video games, movies, and music (Brezina 23). Their parents had told the news that they were acting different when they arrived home from the juvenile program. Eric had posted on the internet that he would like to kill people…

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

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    analyze the root cause. On the morning of April 20th Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into the cafeteria, where they left two duffle bags containing propane bombs. The two teens then left the school and waited outside planning on shooting the fleeing survivors of…

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