The shooting at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999 shook America and was known as the worst high school shooting during that time. Two high school students that attended Columbine, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, walked in and killed 13 people in total, 12 of them being students and one a teacher, as well as wounded more than 20 others. At the end of it all, they decided to kill themselves along with the 13 they had already killed. Since then there has been a numerous amount of school shootings across America and some have proven to be much more destructive than Columbine Dylan Klebold was only 17 years old when he committed this act and didn’t seem like the type of person who would do something of this nature. Klebold was born on September …show more content…
Harris and Klebold both kept journals and wrote in them all the way up to the shooting. They left their deepest darkest thoughts behind in those journals and soon they were revealed to the world. Dylan and Eric were two distinctly different types of killers and they had different thoughts. Even though they had the same outcome in mind, what was going through their heads was completely different. In an article titled What a Killer Thinks the author says that Harris was known to be a “psychopath killer” and Klebold was a “depressed killer”. The author, Dave Cullen says “Harris was witty, charming, and endearing-like most psychopaths-but he artfully masked his hate. "I hate the f-king world," his journal begins, a year before the attack.” And then goes on to talk about Harris’s psychopathic tendencies and how that all tied into the day of the shooting. Cullen then goes on to talk about Klebold saying, “Dylan Klebold, before his rampage at Columbine, felt his soul dying. Hopeless. Helpless. Unrelenting despair. He documented it in a private journal for two years. He also left telling school essays and notorious videotapes. The wealth of information provides one of the most enlightening portraits of the depressive descent to a killing spree.” These two contrasting killers had very different ways of expressing their feelings and different feelings/thoughts in general. These teenagers felt as if they were so closed out from their peers that they had to do this to prove a point, it was their lack of happiness and inclusion that drove them mad. Depression was present in both killers however, the form of it was different. In Harris’s final journal entry before the shooting he says “hate you people for leaving me out of so many fun things. And no don't fucking say, "well thats your fault" because it isnt, you people had my phone #, and I asked and all, but
The Columbine school shooting was supposed to be a bombing but the bombs did not go off so the shooters started shooting the students and staff instead. Many conspiracy theories surrounding the shooting arose. Harris was seen as a brutal mastermind while Dylan was seen as a depressed hot-headed. Many believe Harris was a psychopath and a great manipulator. Eric Harris was manipulative because he could manipulate Dylan Klebold into helping him blow up Columbine
The school shooting at Columbine high school was one of the bloodiest and atrocious school shootings in United States history. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris devised a plan to inflict as much terror as possible in their school as well as the rest of the world. Even though their original plan of detonating propane bombs in the school cafeteria failed, these two improvised and still proceeded with the massacre. Columbine was never about killing mankind; Columbine was a quest to ensure both killers would reach widespread notoriety.
The first difference between these two men is Harris was selfish and Jeffrey was selfless. "My three other companions, who were captured, were sent to Westminster jail, where they were kept three weeks, and afterwards sent to Baltimore and sold for twelve hundred dollars a piece, as I was informed while at the tavern in Terrytown. " This statement from the first passage supports this because it shows that Harris was not worried about anyone, but hisself. In this situation Harris was not worried about saving the other three he was just worried about himself. "
Eric Harris was a military kid who had a lot of troubles with his life. He was always moving homes, and having trouble with kids during school. Dylan Klebold was more of the normal kid out of the two of them. His family was in the middle class, and had a normal life, and liked to talk about love. The two of them were
Statistics show that serial killers in the United States often kill for fun and financial gains. (Serial Killer) In class we have been learning about serial killers and the psychological disorders that cause them to carry out the murders they commit. Andrea Yates mental stability and religious views altered her ability of life and caused five young children to lose their lives
After his arrest Carneal stated, “people respect me now”(Leary, Kowalski, Smith and Phillips, 2003). Johnson had been repeatedly teased for being fat. Harris and Klebold both were teased, ostracized, and bullied by their peers, particularly athletes. The two boys made videos recounting instances when they had been bullied and ostracized and stated that the shooting was a form of retribution (Leary, Kowalski,
The book “Rampage The Social Roots Of School Shootings” written by Newman et al, offers many different views and theories behind the issues of Rampage school shootings. In this paper I will give the reader an in depth overview and evaluation of the aforementioned book. Offering researched based reasons to why these school shootings actually happen. They explore the communities of Heath and Westside, the grounds of two horrific acts of rampage shootings by Michael Carnell, Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson. They explain various angles of there research such as identifying an issue, how signals given by children can be misinterpreted, the effects of social capital and how mental factors play a role in the acts of the shooters.
What’s missing from the typical kindergartener’s backpack? A gun. The ultimate solution to gun violence is more guns, isn’t that obvious? We are in need of guns everywhere to the point where our nation needs armed guards in every school. They say the more guns we have, the more gun violence there is, but in fact it does the complete opposite and solves gun violence.
School Shootings: How We All Miss the Point... The aftermath of a school shooting is tragic, depressing, and causes hatred for the lives lost and the person who took them. Everyone, especially the media, tries to interpret why the shooter killed their victims, or why they felt the need to end others’ lives and their own. How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings, by Mark Manson, explains what and why these mass shootings happen. He starts by using examples of shootings and the murderer’s past.
Appeals? Cullen uses logically appeals to present reasons why media or bullying cannot be blamed for the killers’ actions. He reasons that they were not bullied; they themselves were the bullies! (Cullen 258). He deduces that Harris and Klebold’s psychological states caused their actions.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are the two teens that were behind the Columbine shooting. After years of planning April 20, 1999 was the day that Eric and Dylan killed fifteen people including themselves. No one knows why they did it, but some knew that Eric and Dylan were not stable boys. Eric labeled as a psychopath knew how to control his fate, and Dylan labeled with depression did not care about life anymore. Did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold show signs of their labels, and did they have a chance to move on from it?
In the words of Eric Harris, “All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you pricks as I can!”. According to this view, Eric’s mindset was focused on killing and injuring as many people as he possibly could, trying to do a great damage to the world. In sum, the issue is whether Eric and Dylan shot up their high school because of being bullied and wanting to get
On April 20, 1999, two disturbed teenage boys Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris began a killing rampage at Columbine High School in the suburban town of Littleton, Colorado. This was considered one of the worst school shootings to occur at that time. In the morning of April 20, before noon, the two juveniles had killed 13 people to include 12 students and 1 teacher; they also wounded another 23 people before turning the guns on themselves. This event would change the theories as to why school shootings would occur. (History)
The Columbine shooting was one of the first mass school shootings in the US, and it was one of the first school shootings on the national radar in which the shooters killed twelve students and one teacher. People sometimes admire these people and reason people try to replicate this shooting is because they sometimes idolize former school shooters. These followers will try and replicate the former assailants, in which inducing another shooting/mass shooting. It is purely disgusting that people would idolize the monsters that committed these terrible attacks on innocent
In his journal Eric Harris wrote “Oh well, just as long as I kill a lot of fucking people. Everyone is always making fun of me because of how I look, how fucking weak I am and shit, well I will get you all back, ultimate fucking revenge here.” Harris was subject to ridicule because he did not meet the standards of masculinity, his body did not match up to the strength men are supposed to have instead Harris was a lanky and as a result got bullied for being “weak”. Eliot Rodger dubbed himself “the kissless virgin” in his manifesto Rodger details his entire life leading up to the shooting where he killed 7 people near the University of California. Rodger writes about feeling emasculated because he couldn’t find love, according to his manifesto.