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Dylan Klebold: Mass Murderer At Columbine High School

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Dylan and Eric are responsible for the mass murderer at Columbine High School (Dylan 1). They intended to blow up the whole school but ended up killing 13 people and injuring 20 on April 20th, 1999. Eric had the idea but Dylan followed along to bring guns and pipe bombs. They had a hatred for school. Eric hated everyone in the school and Dylan felt like he did not belong to Columbine. Eric and Dylan started to wear trench coats and all black. They were against everyone and wanted to murder people so they planned it out for a while until they eventually did it one day. No one knew where to go or what to do because they were very unprepared. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are similar because they both had mental illnesses, killed people, and had …show more content…

Eric had an idea to blow up the school and put a lot of time into planning it. For example, Eric built the entire school on the game Minecraft. When Eric built it a lot of details were put into it. Dylan had very bad depression and talked about suicide in his journal so something was definitely not right. That is a red flag to the massacre that happened along with how creative Eric got with it. Eric was the one that was determined to do it and kept pushing the plan until they achieved it. Dylan Klebold was the one to cling to Eric’s plan because suicide was something that was always being talked about in the journal. Eric Harris said “God I can’t wait til I can kill you people. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame, I don’t care if I live or die in the shoot-out. All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you ... as I can” (Moore 3). That shows something was terribly wrong with these teenagers. Dylan’s nose was the “big blob” so that could of had something to do with suicide. This shows how crazy Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were. They obviously had very bad mental …show more content…

Eric was jealous of Dylan because Eric did not have a prom date and Dylan did. This is true 100%. However, Eric was just a psychopath that wanted to kill people deep down inside and acted weirdly. Eric had so many red flags that showed that killing people was on the list. Dylan was just depressed, wanted to die, and was shy. No emotions were really shown of Dylan wanting to kill people mostly just wanting to be alone. That is why people probably wanted to be with Dylan and not Eric because Eric was crazy to be only

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They had all the details set up and divided into three stages. They were sure that their plans would work, but the question is, does it really go as planned? The first of their plans was to set bombs off in the lunchroom when most students were going to be there, this would be the worst of the shooting. The second of plans was for Dylan and Eric to be at their cars out in the parking lot, parked to where they could shoot the ones coming out the doors, without getting in the way of each other. After the boys were to do this, they would set off a massive bomb coming from the cars, taking out the law enforcement, E.M.T help, or any others that could possibly get in their way.

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The massacre at Columbine High School in 1999 was, at the time, one of the worst school shootings to have taken place in the United States. In the months and years that followed this tragedy, discussions about public safety, the victims, and, most importantly, the killers ensued in the mass media. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, best friends and killers in the Columbine massacre, ended the lives of 13 people and changed the lives of countless others. When looking back on this tragedy, it is not difficult for people to realize that Eric Harris was clearly psychopathic. However, his best friend Dylan, his partner in the killings, did not seem to share the same desire to kill.

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