Dave Cullen School Shooting Theories

The American culture has been tainted with school shootings that are becoming a sort of tradition found in America. Most twenty-first-century school shootings have taken inspiration from the Columbine shooting, an event that has left a remarkable imprint on the future of school shootings and made the ones responsible infamous among them. In fact, Dave Cullen explores this idea in his nonfiction novel “Columbine”, where he illustrates the story of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and how the Columbine shooting was orchestrated, how it was carried out, and the aftermath that ensued, along with the pair’s psychotic paths that led to that event. Cullen’s argument was Eric being the manipulate genius behind the organization of the shooting while Dylan, who was not as psychotic, followed Eric through the event. One of the many

Gladwell is not wrong about these points, however, he is incorrect in his riot theory. Winkler justifies this by a riot being spontaneous not meticulously planned with each shooter being influenced by different reasons. Every shooting has it’s unique reason for why it was done, why it was done where it was, why the shooter acted the way they did. Each shooting is left for society to not undermine their cause of healing and togetherness in the aftermath. Shootings stain the American culture with the abrupt loss of life and destruction of communities, however, society can mend the wounds by not giving notice to the event but instead to those that are affected. The causes for the shooting are just as important as the effects of them, therefore each should have equal attention. The future of school shootings are affected by the past but also the more important present which will determine the outcome of the next leaving society to give the next shooter a reason to pull the