March 11, 2018
Columbine High School
Dylan Klebold
Eric Harris
Rachel Scott
Maisie Favila
The Columbine shooting was one of the most horrific tragedies. I find it unbelievable that there was such an amount of damage caused because something possessed them to do it. Although I don’t think it was fair that they were bullied, I don’t feel like it is in any form of way an ‘excuse’ for what they did. I liked the article because I wasn’t aware that they would ask the people they would kill if they believed in God. I found that disturbing but I felt that I needed to know that information to know more about the case.
26/08/2018
8:25 am
Avery Looney
This article is very well written and researched. The author goes into great detail of the the two shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, background and the way the planned the shooting. School shootings have become a major problem in our society, and needs to come to an end. It is sickening that people will go to the lengths that Harris and Klebold went to make a point. Even if the pair were bulled, there is no excuse for their actions. School is a place where everyone should feel safe and welcomed, but that is not the case anymore.
27/08/2018
8:25 am
Pamela Callahan
While the event described in this article is horrific, the way the author told the story and explained all of the details was very interesting and helped me envision the terror and chaos of the situation. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to have been effected by such a violent tragedy. While I wish that no one in the world would ever have to experience the pain that the families of the victims have to endure, I also wish that no one ever had to face the constant bullying that those two boys, and so many others, were forced to live through on a daily basis.
28/08/2018
8:25 am
Devin Ramos
The columbine shooting was planned to every detail which is crazy to me because other mass shooters do not put this much planning into their acts. The boys Eric and Dylan planned this for a year and to my knowledge of right now I cannot think of any other shootings that were planned for this long. The boys were bullied by I think this should not be an excuse for murdering people. One thing that I did not know at all about the shooting was that the boys would ask someone if they believed in God before shooting the person.
29/08/2018
8:25 am
Richard Morales
The Columbine Massacre was an event that chilled my soul when I originally learned about it. This article gave me more reasoning behind that awful day. I didn’t know the extent to which the two shooters were harassed. This highlights the problem of bullying in American schools. Although no amount of torment should result in a school shooting students must respect there peers and look out for fellow classmates if they notice them being picked on.
29/08/2018
8:25 am
Brianna Ford
Reading this article gave my body chills. I knew of the event, but this article gave me some information that I never knew happened. The fact that they took a year to plan this unbelievable event is just completely horrible. It is so horrible that they targeted people who believed in God. They were killed for something that they believed in. I also don’t know how they were able to create man-made bombs with out no suspicion… where were the parents? However, what makes me mad is that they killed themselves. They got the easy way out and didn’t get punished for the crimes that they committed. This is a story that breaks my heart, however this was very good detailed article about the horrific event.
01/09/2018
8:25 am
Robert Freise
Growing up and learning about school safety and things students would have to do if there was a active shooter on campus were heavily addressed growing up for me. When I was a younger kid I learned about the Columbine Massacre that happened in Littleton, Colorado. It gave me a realization that this is no fairy tale world and things like this can happen on any given day. I have always wondered what went through Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s mind’s leading up to the massacre and during it. It is crazy to think that a combination of bullying and a unstable household could drive these teens to the edge and what in their head triggered them to take so many lives. Great article!!
01/09/2018
8:25 am
Debbi
This won an award for “best descriptive article”. Is that a synonym for “fiction”? Shockingly researched article, even more so that this passes for either academic rigor or “history” at a university. The range of references is extremely limited and overly weighted towards a Christian narrative, a case in point being the “martyrdom” layered onto the deaths of “three” of the victims. Cassie Bernall’s alleged martyrdom is disputed and the questions asked of Val Schnurr transposed to Cassie’s narrative (Source: https://newrepublic.com/article/122832/why-does-columbine-myth-about-martyr-cassie-bernall-persist) And, in fact, there weren’t three martyrs since Valeen did not die, as this article states: she survived. (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/12/columbine-massacre-ten-year-anniversary). Similarly, Dave Sanders, the varsity coach, was not killed outright, he survived for approximately three hours (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#11:19_a.m.:_Shooting_begins) Anne Marie Hochhalter’s mother, Carla, who had pre-existing mental health issues, committed suicide six months after the Columbine Shootings (Source: https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2009/04/17/a-survivors-story-10-years-after-columbine). Since I have used exactly the same source, the US News and World Report, though an article and not YouTube, as this author, I do wonder why the significant discrepancy. I could go on, and provide countless more sources to validate every point I make, not least about the unhelpfulness of emotive assumptions such as the gunmen were “outraged” in a theoretically academic piece. I assume the intent is one of factual reportage because of the presence of references. Outraged, really? Because of their antipathy to religion? That’s the inference. However, countless witness accounts record that they whooped and hollered – plenty of enjoyment on their part. If they were outraged, I would suggest that it was instead the cold rage – of the narcissist/psychopath and the depressive perhaps – and nothing to do with Christianity. All-in-all, the dissemination of myth and bias masquerading as historical truth really isn’t good academic practice.
02/09/2018
8:25 am
Jonathan Arreola
I pray for all the people affected by the horrifying occurrence on April 20,1999. Altogether it is a despairing event, where I pity the victims and the aggressors. The effects of bullying are always terrible, leading young minds to act unreasonably and to the most extreme. In correspondence, the effects of violence always lead to death, and everlasting pain. I honestly can not put the blame all on Eric and Dylan, as the were abuse psychologically. I’m just hoping that strategies school have approached to prevent this from happening again will work.
02/09/2018
8:25 am
Lamont Traylor
It is so sad how tragedies such as columbine happen in America. People cannot feel safe anywhere these days, people shoot up movie theaters, schools, and even a innocent video game tournament was shot up by someone. I don’t know when or how this will ever stop, but somehow someway these things need to stop happening for the sake of the next generations to come.
26/08/2018
8:25 am