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    what came to be on April 20, 1999 to the 1,945 students attending Columbine High School. On April 20,1999 at 11:19 a.m. two Columbine students wearing trench coats went on a rampage outside of the school shooting students and staff. The students were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 12 students, including a staff member, leaving more than 20 others injured. Their original plan was to bomb the school, but after they set the bombs in their places around the school, they didn’t go off as…

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    would learn from it. Ergo, perhaps it can be argued that it was his friend, Eric Harris that had the biggest influence on Dylan’s control and behaviour and not the parents. As mentioned before the boys differed in personalities. Dylan, throughout his diary journals, often blamed himself and God (for creating someone like Dylan). This may explain why it was easier for him to become influenced by a stronger character such as Eric.…

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    Eric Harris and Dyland Klebold were two young perpetrators who murdered 12 students and a teacher alongside injuring 21 people at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. An interesting point to contemplate was the negative self-concept that both Harris…

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    April 16, 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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    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 compiled…

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    Columbine Shooting Theory

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    It was the morning of April 20, 1999, in a small town called Littleton, Colorado, two shooters who were later identified as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who attended Columbine High School. Eric at the time was 18 years of age and Dylan at the time was 17. Facts concluded that the two had killed and wounded approximately 20 people, students and teachers included, before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide on school campus. It started inside the school by the library then…

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    Columbine shooting This story is about some kids that went in to a school and killed people with machine guns. This school is currently the most popular high school in the worlds. There were 12 students and 1 teacher killed. They killed a girl named Rachel that was a senior and she was such a nice girl she started a chain reaction that is all over the world. The kids that killed Rachel killed themselves at the scene. The question is, should parents of the kids that killed the students be…

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    food- except, unknown to him, nothing that day was going to be the usual routine. He went to work, and that was where he would learn the horror of what had happened earlier that day. What Holmes did not know yet was that at 11:19 am earlier that day, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold began “shooting fellow students outside Columbine High School, located in a suburb south of Denver” (History.com Staff). According to ABC news reporter Susan Donaldson James, by 11:19 am, they had killed twelve…

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    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 and he…

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    Columbine Massacre

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    intending on killing as many people that get in their way, if that means by a gun, a bomb made out of a propane tank, or any of their grenades or devices made by hand. Twelve students and one teacher died because of the horror caused by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Eric and Dylan later committed suicide, but who are these kids? Another incident in Colorado had taken place just a few years ago, James Holmes (pictured above) killed 12 and injured over 140 people while entering an Aurora movie…

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