POST 15: School shootings in the USA

Injured girl back home

Entry of the school

Gunmen on the cafeteria

Downhill from Columbine's west entry.

The partially-detonated propane bomb in a duffel bag
 left behind by the shooters blackened the floor and set off
the overhead sprinklers.

The shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

Eric Harris in his senior photos

Dylan Klebold attended Columbine High School's prom

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were a couple of American high school seniors only two weeks away from graduation. Despite their age, they were planning this school shooting a year before the event. As we see in the picture below, they made a schedule for D day. They attacked Columbine High School the morning of April 20, 1999 with students inside. 

Eric's journal

What have really shocked me is that he puts on his schedule, "go to school, wait near cars, gear up, HAHAHA" I think this shows how crazy this people were, because they see this School Shooting as if it was nothing. I also find really surprising the calls to 911, most of all the one made by the teacher hidden on the library with many stundents and suddently we hear the shots. Also, the recordings of the cafeteria, when they throw the bomb.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April Showers

I think the movie that best deals with this subject is April Showers because it the story is based on true facts and told by a survivor. 

Story of a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a survivor. This film focuses mainly on how survivors pick up the pieces and move on after living through such a horrific event.

Gunmen on the cafeteria

The most commonly reasons why school shootings exist are because other kids pick on them, make fun or them, or bully them so they make a kind of revenge, for example, in this case, Dylan attended this school, so he had a relationship with the people of the school, but we don't know how was it. Moreover, because they don't value life, that means they aren't afraid to die. Furthermore, they have mental problems, I think this is the most reasonable one, because if you get this kind of revenge it is because something in you isn't working as it should be.