Although there were several situations that occurred as a result of the Columbine High School Shooting, three specific situations were considered the most important. These situations were when the shooting finally ended, arrival time of police, and the days following the massacre. All of these situations resulted in changes to the world. The police didn't know very much about the shooting going on inside. This is why they took so long trying to develop a tactical plan. No one outside of the building even knew how many shooter there were and where Dylan and Harris ,the gunmen, were located inside the building. Because the police took so long trying to develop a tactical plan, fifteen people were killed including the two gunman Dylan and Harris …show more content…
Most of the injured students were able to get treated at the school, some of the more serious injuries were sent to area hospitals. Almost two hours had past before any of the paramedics were able to reach Dave Sanders, a teacher, and despite all of the teachers and student help Sanders died on the scene (Hasday, 32). The police officers took many critical hours trying to develop a tactical plan. No one even knew when the danger had passed or how many gunmen there were, except for the people inside the school. The 911 lines were flooding with calls and jamming all the phone lines. Because of the fire alarms many people couldn’t track where the gun fires were coming from (Hasday, 32). The swat team entered through the doors farthest away from the attack. No one was prepared for what the swat team saw when they entered the building. The building was filled with smoke and bullet casings literally lined the floors (Hasday, 32). Pipe bombs were laying on the floor where they burned the carpet. Ceiling tiles were loose, nails scattered the floor, and glass was scattered on the floor from where bombs exploded attached to the walls (Hasday, 32).No one had expected it to be so
Two boys by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into Columbine High School around 11:19 A.M. with 99 home-made explosives, a 9mm carbine, a pump shotgun, and a double barrel shotgun. As well as being accompanied by four knives. Both managed to murder thirteen innocent people in total, twelve students and one teacher.
"Columbine High School Shootings." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015. Eighteen year old Eric Harris and seventeen year old Dylan Klebold were two boys with a fascination of violent video games and music. These young men were known to be “goth” and were bullied all throughout their high school careers because of their different interest. In 1999, on April 20th these boys went into their high school with mixed emotions and a devious plan to get revenge. The two teens went into the high school with handguns and killed both students and faculty members, before they turned the guns around on themselves. This is a reliable source because it informed us of both previous emotion, and the aftermath of the tragedy with detail about the boys, the school and the lives affected. This source was relevant for me because of how thoroughly it described the shooting, and gave me background information as to why and how it happened.
The Guard, for reasons unknown, had to turn back and open fire at a crowd of students. Within thirteen seconds, four students were killed and nine wounded. One student who was killed was Allison Krause, who was the only one of the four killed that was actually involved in the demonstrations.
On the morning of October 3, four people were shot within a span of approximately 2 hours in Aspen Hill, and other nearby areas in Montgomery County. Another was killed that evening in the District of Columbia, just over the border of Silver Spring. In each shooting, the victims were killed by a single bullet fired from some distance. The pattern was not detected until after the shootings occurred on October 3. Fear quickly spread throughout the community as news of the shootings circulated. Many parents went to pick up their children at school early, not allowing them to take a school bus or walk home alone. Montgomery County and District of Columbia schools declared a lockdown, wit...
In conclusion, the Kent State shooting was a tragedy that has never really had anyone held responsible. Thirty-eight years later, “Official investigations as to exactly what happened at Kent State were inconclusive.” The days preceding the shootings, the students burned down the ROTC building, protested on the commons, and threw rubbish at police officers. The violent actions of the students put the law enforcement officials and National Guardsmen around them on edge. On the other side, the Guardsmen arrived in full combat gear to put down unarmed college students. There was no reason for the soldiers to fire at the students that were hundreds of feet away from them. Whether one of the soldiers fired in a moment of panic or if they were order to commence shooting may never be known.
April 20th, 1999, Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, experienced a mass shooting. Thirteen people were injured and more than twenty were injured. Twelve were students and one was a teacher. Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on their high school for forty one minutes before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide. School shootings are notorious for making headline news but in 1999, school shooting were not as prevalent as they are in the present day. The media blew up on the catastrophe that was Columbine and many questions were raised, who were these kids and why did they do this? Speculation arose about why they did it. Maybe they were bullied for being goth and social outcasts or maybe they
Harris and Dylan B. Klebold were partners in crime and their motive was to kill. Eric D. Harris was the psychopath and mastermind and leader of the plan he was driven to kill and might have caused a bigger destruction if he would have waited years later to have caused destruction; he would have done something worse than the Columbine High School Massacre. Dylan B. Klebold was depressed, suicidal, and weak minded; he felt like an outcast compared to the rest of the students. Dylan B. Klebold might not have gone through with the shooting alone if he wouldn’t have been driven with the motive to kill by following Eric D. Harris and trying to be like him
The columbine massacre the day where no one is safe in school or out of school. The columbine massacre is about two students named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris both seniors 17 years old both two weeks before graduating they killed 12 students, one teacher, and 21 injured to their shooting on April 20, 1999. Both Dylan and Eric were some believe they were bullied by the sport teams in their school so they planned to kill the people who bullied them and other mostly anyone who gets in their way but that wasn’t really why the FBI he said that there target was everyone no one in pacify we will not get in to more details now. Dylan and Eric were both intelligent boys with solid parents and a good home and both had brothers younger than them. They played soccer, baseball, and both enjoyed to work on computers. Both boys were thinking on commit suicide on 1997 but instead started to plan a massacre in 1998 a year before it happened. Then the two boys had got into some trouble for breaking into a van on January 30, 1998 trying to steal some fuses and wires for bombs for them to make, but they got caught in trouble. So the court put them in a program called the juvenile diversion program, but even if they were there they were still planning the massacre and the court also put Eric in some angry management classes and people believe it worked but it didn’t he just did it to look like it work and both boys made it look like they were really sorry but they weren’t. Dylan and Eric both really hated everyone in their school and the court as well after they got caught breaking in to that van that’s when they really started to plan the massacre more and that’s when Harris started he’s journals no one really knows way but they didn’t hate a hand...
In the final count, sixteen kids lay dead along with their teacher, another twelve kids were wounded plus the two adults who met the shooter at the door. Only one boy in the gym made it through physically unharmed his name was Robbie Hurst, and he survived by hiding under the dead bodies of his best friend and another classmate (Pederson).
Crime manifests itself in various ways in society and oftentimes difficult to pinpoint what drives people to commit certain actions. The Columbine shooting was a particular incident that ended in tears and suffering which resulted in numerous research as to what was going through the minds of these young individuals at the time of the shooting. Therefore, this paper will analyze specifically the role of differential association- reinforcement as altered by Akers in propelling Dylan Klebold to commit such heinous act, while also giving credit to Edwin Sutherland for first formulating the framework of differential association.
One of the most eye opening school shootings was on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado. Thirteen students were killed and twenty wounded in the middle of the day while attending school at Columbine High School. Two armed students opened fire just outside the building, then moved inside and gunned down more students and faculty members. This rampage lasting for just under 45 minutes. The students then turned the guns on themselves and ended their lives. The police did not show up in a reasonable time, which lead families to file lawsuits against the police department and the school. There was only one resource officer in the high school, during this time. He was located in the parking lot to watch kids drive in and out. One of the parents of the victims said, "There was no one in that school that had a gun other than the two killers, and ...
Public mass shootings have increased at an alarming rate over the past three decades and have become a growing concern for the people of the United States. It has appeared that approximately every few months, media outlets report incidences of tragedy involving a sole gunman targeting groups of people with the intent to harm or extinguish life due to various motives. Recent research data indicated that over 80 public mass shootings have occurred in the United States since 1983. Some of the more recent shootings to date are: Marysville-Pilchick High in October 2014; Santa Barbara, California in May 2014; Fort Hood, Texas U.S. Army base in April 2014; Washington Navy Yard in September 2013; Sandy Hook Elementary, Connecticut in December 2012;
Patrick Ducharme is a heroic and focused detective but sometimes he can’t help but feel helpless because his cases “[fall] into his lap, already broken, every time” (pg. 12). Despite that Patrick still manages to instil hope in all the victims he encounters so that they are not “going to be [victims] forever” (pg. 12). When Patrick arrives at the school, the shooting is still happening but Patrick was brave enough to go into the school when it was “not protocol” (pg. 21). Once in the school Patrick “had to restrain himself from running toward [the sound of the gun shots] blindly” (pg. 22), he had such a powerful need to protect those around him that he was ready to risk his own life. Patrick is motivated by his inner need to protect, which
With the media shining so much light upon this topic, it is evident that mass murders in the United States of America are more frequent and deadly. In fact, studies have found that the USA has more mass public shootings than any other country (Christensen). These numbers have only been increasing in the past decades. This is shocking because the USA holds only 5 percent of the world’s population, but as a nation, contributes to 31 percent of mass murders (Christensen). Although these murders continue to be a rare phenomenon, weak gun laws, the need for fame, and issues with societal views are the main causes of the increase in cases.
5 people died in the shooting, 10 were injured. The shooters were Mitchell Johnson, 13, and his friend Andrew Golden, 11. Once I found this out, I started to have a different mindset. I kept researching and found more information about the shooters. Both of the boys had been raised around guns. They belonged to gun clubs and even participated in practical shooting competitions, which involve firing at simulated moving human targets. Golden reportedly shot several dogs in preparation for the actual shooting(ANIMAL ABUSE!!!). When they got caught, in their possession were thirteen fully loaded firearms, including three semi-automatic rifles, and 200 rounds of ammunition. They also had a stolen van filled with ammunition, 3 semi-automatic rifles, a crossbow, and some hunting knives, which by the way all of the weapons were taken from the Golden family’s personal arsenal. Woah, wait a second, those guys are way too young to use guns, cause a school shooting and have a van filled with hunting weapons. These boys are downright crazy!!! But there needs to be a reason why they cause this monstrosity and what motivated them to do it, and only thing revealed was a possible motivation; a famous first-person shooter video game called Doom. In Doom, you control Doomguy (the main character of the game) and the crux of Doom is to complete missions by killing demonic monsters that lurk within dark corridors. If you’ve never seen or played the game or not, you should know it’s rather gory and violent. Now, back the shooters, why did they do it? They maybe wanted to mimic the game in real life or they just hated their school and wanted everyone dead. I don’t know, those are just theories of mine. The reason for the shooting is unknown. David Grossman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former professor of psychology at West Point is now an adjunct faculty member at Arkansas State University