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.
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.
The events surround the deaths of four students in Kent, Ohio are disorderly and violent. In the government’s investigation after the shootings, the officials made several recommendations to students of the future. As the massacre is looked back upon, there are several key events that
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
At 11:19 in the morning of April 19, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold stood at the west entrance of Columbine High School preparing for the deadliest shooting in American school history. One of them yelled, "Go! Go!," and then the two pulled out their shotguns and began firing, killing two students almost immediately (Jefferson County 3). Harris and Klebold began moving through the school randomly shooting students, detonating pipe bombs, and yelling about how much fun they were having. While this was happening, Coach Dave Sanders and other heroes were frantically trying to get students out of harm's way. At 11:26, while running past the library warning students of the killers, Sanders was shot by one of the shooters. He made it into a science room where first aid was administered by students. He died several hours later in that same room. The worst killing took place in the library during a span of about eight minutes starting at 11:29. Ten students were killed and twelve others were wounded. After leaving the library, Harris and Klebold wandered around the school in movements that appeared to be "extremely random" (Jefferson County 18). They eventually returned to the library at about 12:08 and killed themselves. In 49 minutes, 14 students were left dead, one teacher was left dying, 23 people were injured, and an entire community's sense of safety and security was shattered.
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;
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.
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
Mass shootings have become a common occurrence in the United States society and have brought our society's safety debate to the attention of American politics. Both sides of the debate agree that we need more safety precautions but neither side can officially agree on what is to be done. What can we do about the raging number of mass shootings? There is no definite solution for mass shootings but there are precautions the United States can take to try to overcome the overwhelming number of mass shootings occurring. Gun Control is a major topic in the debate of how we can keep our society safer but how is what remains a mystery but we can start with altering the second amendment, and having stronger gun laws and background checks.
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...
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
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 ...
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