School Shootings: Columbine og dens effekter

I have chosen the topic “school shootings” because I think it has been the most interesting topic we have worked with this year.

The massacre at columbine high school

On the 20th of April. 1999 two students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold rushed the columbine high school they shot and killed 12 students and 1 teacher and another 24 students were injured. The shooting started at lunchtime when most of the students were in the school’s canteen, the shooters hid 2 propane bombs in the canteen but the bombs luckily did not go off. When they realised the bombs were not going to go off, they decided walk into the school, and then they started shooting everyone. After the shooting Eric and Dylan committed suicide.

Facts

Typical shooters are mostly suicidal, they often tell others about their upcoming actions, they typically own guns, they often have been bullied and most of the time they are looking for revenge.

Secret Service

After the columbine school shooting the secret service tried to help schools all over America to protect themselves from future school shooters. They looked at some of the fatal school shootings over the past 26 years. The shooters were between 11 and 21 years old. some shooters were rich, others were poor. Some shooters lived in broken families, others in normal families, some shooters had no friends, others had many friends and only a few shooters were mentally unstable.