Columbine High School Shooting Massacre, Way back in April 20, 1999 Options

[*Blow_Don't_SUCK*]

Sorry if there is a topic like this!

I recently watched a documentary called Bowling for Columbine. It's basically about a high school massacre in Columbine High School and the director's thoughts on gun violence.


Anyways I really want to talk about the high school shooting a bit more. It's the second deadliest attack on a school and the deadliest school shooting. The two shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and teachers and injured 24 others. The documentary I mentioned earlier has detailed footage of what had happened through the security cameras (boy were they brutal). These two students were "out-casts" of the school and were full of hatred towards their fellow students.

The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado, near Denver and Littleton, Colorado, in the United States. Two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, carried out a shooting rampage, killing twelve fellow students and a teacher, as well as wounding twenty-four others, before committing suicide. It is considered to be the deadliest school shooting, and the second deadliest attack on a school in US History.

The massacre provoked refined debate regarding gun control laws and the availability of firearms in the United States. Much discussion also centered on the nature of high school cliques and bullying, as well as the role of violent movies and video games in American society. Several of the victims who were believed to have been killed due to their religious beliefs became a source of inspiration to others, notably Christians, and led some to lament the decline of religion in public education and society in general. The shooting also resulted in an increased emphasis on school security, and a moral panic aimed at goth culture, heavy metal music, social pariahs, the use of pharmaceutical anti-depressants by teenagers, violent films and violent video games

here is a detailed article of it:
Wikipedia explains what happened before, during, and after the shooting
The Depressive and the Psychopath

I know this happened years ago, but I want to see if there were people who actually went to Columbine, heard of it in the news by the time it came out, and a few of your reactions (and theories as to why this happened).

[*mipadi*]

I remember it really well. I was in seventh grade when it happened. There had been a rash of school shootings in the previous months, but nothing like this. I just remember that everyone went crazy about it. Suddenly we weren't learning about fire drills or tornado drills; we were learning how to lock down doors, and where to hide in a classroom to avoid gunfire. We were learning how to signal to SWAT teams that were were in a room, or that there were wounded students with us. We were getting randomly searched for weapons, and pretty much every semi-depressed kid seemed to be a suspect for a major shooting. Teachers were required to lock their doors, except at the beginning and end of classes.

I guess the thing I remember most was that things were never quite the same again. Even years later, schools still seemed on edge. Doors weren't required to be locked, backpacks weren't searched, and dark, depressed kids weren't suspected of harboring thoughts of a bloodbath. But even so, it was still dangerous to say something like "I'm so mad I could kill that guy" or make any joke remotely alluding to blowing up the school.

I don't think about it much now (partly because I'm not in an elementary or secondary school anymore) but I still have memories of how the massacre at Columbine changed everything. It really did leave a mark all across the US.