Shooting Spree At Columbine High School example essay topic

The 20th of April was the anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The shooting deaths of 12 students and 1 teacher-and the two suicides of the teenage executioners and left many others psychologically and physically damaged. Who's to blame? , On the issue of blame, of this massacre it is not music, or video games, and not even movies, it's the shooters because everybody is responsible own actions. However, the parents could have been more involved in their lives. What parent wouldn't notice their child listening to groups like Marilyn Manson, or I.C.P. (or known as Insane Clown Possie) (both band lyrics are filled with violence).

Although, they were not totally accepted by the group they considered themselves members of the "Trench coat Mafia". The Mafioso were large family gangs that did the events like the St. Valentines Massacre and they also made movies about them like the Godfather series, Scar face and many others. They also controlled Las Vegas for a period of time for money laundering and other illegal activities. These activities lead up to April 20 '99. These incidences all commenced the shooting. In early '98, when Harris and Klebold committed a petty vandalism in the neighborhood this brings police awareness about the two boys Dylan Klebold, age 16, and Eric Harris, age 17.

In May '98 the Browns, (neighbors of the Harris's) turn in a 9-page print out of Eric's web site over to the police. The web site was filled with violence, hatred, and aforementioned threats, in spite of all that there was no action taken. In June of '98 Dylan and Eric began building pipe bombs, the parents fail to notice their activities. July '98 Eric was playing "Doom" (doom is a computer game) on the Internet, one of the levels in the game was a layout of Columbine High School. August '98 they set off the pipe bombs in "Greenbelt" section. That September Dylan and Eric become seniors.

In October, Dylan and Eric's video class project was teeming with antagonism, hostility, and retribution. November Dylan's girlfriend turns 18 and buys three guns used in the shooting. At some point in December, Eric is taking Lu vox, a psychotropic drug to treat a brain chemical imbalance. In the New Year their bomb making continues while Eric refines his murder tactics. February '99 a man sells a TEC-DC 9 assault pistol to Eric, later he goes out shooting. A month prior to the shooting, the school counselor talks to Eric and his father about his violent essays written at school.

After several incidents, the school guard is told to watch Eric and Dylan. This day they were "going for the big kill" in a suicide attack to coincide with Adolf Hitler's birthday on April 20th. That morning in Littleton, Colorado, Dylan and Eric went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and 1 teacher-and the two suicides of Dylan and Eric. The most commonly asked question is 'could anyone have stopped this senseless, horrific catastrophe?' Some say the police could have taken action when the Browns sent the print out.

Other say it was movies (like the "Matrix") having the Black trench coats and killing of people. The list of blame even goes as far as music. (That's ridiculous, because I think personally that Dylan and Eric would have done it way regardless of music.) The lead singer of I.C. P said", Look at me? I'm 30-year-old man who wears clown make-up and Marilyn Manson he has 200$ eye contact in his left eye I mean what person would listen to what say and actually do it".

Other people say it was the parents, to some extent that is true like it was stated above they could have been more involved. The only people to blame are the people that sold them weapons and the shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Since then there has been lots of copycat's of bombing and shooting threats, but some of them have ended fatally. With the deadly result of the horrific shooting at Columbine still untarnished in our minds, many communities are no longer taking teenage threats lightly. As in Texas, four 8th grade boys were arrested for conspiracy to commit arson, and conspiracy to manufacture explosives luckily it was stopped before they put their plan into action. In another Texas town, four teenagers were arrested after the police searched their truck and found bomb-making materials.

Exactly one month after the Columbine massacre, at Heritage High School in Conyers, Georgia one more psycho released a shower of bullets on his own schoolmates. After the shooting there was six students wounded and no one was killed (thank God), the motive for his shooting spree was a depression over a problem with his girlfriend. Yet again, even in year '01 in Santana, California a crazed student opens fire upon his fellow students and faculty killing one teacher and several students, and left the whole school in terror. Going back to Columbine sadly, there is a handful of people who still think that the events mentioned are some joke. Thanks to the psychos and idiots, every day schools are forced to deal with the malicious bomb threats and shootings made by some deranged and unstable people who thinks it is fun to inflect pain, agony, fear and turmoil. Rachel Scott is one of the innocent people that lost their life to these killers.

The mourners filled into the Trinity Christian Center, a mile south from the massacre that only happened a few days before. Friends and acquaintances wrote their heart felt messages on her snow-white casket. Rachel was a actress in school plays who was inspired to be an missionary and now, her dream was stripped away by two boys in a shooting spree. Rachel's best friend from forth grade, wiped her tears of sorrow as she kneeled and wrote "Rachel, I'm so proud of you! I will miss you dearly. You were truly one of my true best friends and I love you from the bottom of my heart". other messages said, "See you in heaven,"You are my hero", and "You always brought a smile to my face".

Her father wrote, "I love you. Dad. Forever". Rachel's funeral was the first weekend services expected to draw a lot of attention from fellow students, teachers, politicians and the former Vice President Al Gore.

These were The Effects of Columbine and even now, we are still effected by a event that happened two years ago. I was in junior high when it happened, and the day after it happened there was a "no trench coat" rule and "no Marilyn Manson shirt rule" or anything that was affiliated with being "Gothic". Since then there has been several more acts of violence on school grounds. In '99, I believed there was a bomb threat at our Mission Viejo High School. Columbine will effect us for years to come... Work sited Page " Columbine" web (5/07/01) "Columbine" web (5/08/01).