America’s Black Spot: The Columbine High School Massacre

attending Columbine High School in Colorado Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris Two 18-year-old teenagers, named two, came to the school on April 20, 1999 to terrorize the school. The poor students and teachers at the school, on the other hand, were unaware of what was going to happen, and saw that day as one of their usual days.

However, that was not the case at all. In the background of this work, it was planned loop by loop. massacre There was that… When you hear it, you can’t help but wonder if people at this age shouldn’t be doing innocent activities such as going to the movies with their friends, playing football or studying. Then let’s dive deeper into this story together.

These two close friends actually intended to kill almost the entire school, not 13 people.

On the day of the massacre, these two friends were in such a way that no one would normally let them into a school. bombs, guns and rifles He brought dangerous ammunition such as In this case, it is obvious what kind of negligence the school’s security caused by taking these devices inside. Actually, Dylan and Eric didn’t want to go and shoot people themselves. Youngsters placed duffel bags with explosive bombs in the school cafeteria, and interestingly, no one noticed their attempts. The bombs were set to explode at 11:17.

After these two psychopaths planted the bombs, they went to their vehicles and waited for the time of the explosion. However, since the expected explosion did not occur, these two violent proponents, who had to enter the school, were there as soon as they stepped into the garden of the school. everyone shot.

Afterwards, the psychopaths who went to the library continued to kill many people there. The attackers killed a total of 12 students and a teacher. In addition, 20 people were injured. After the incident, the police came to the school and the young people who realized that they could not escape, at 12:08 committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Dylan in the first picture, Eric in the second picture

Looking at the interesting theories about this incident, he said, most people Dylan and Eric set targets when choosing their victims, which consisted of athletes, minority individuals, or Christians. In such events, conspiracy theories and unfounded to speculation It is of course possible to come across.

Likewise, since these claims of people cannot be proven, unfounded described as. These children thought that people should be killed simply because they deserve to die, not because they have any specialty.

Among some surprising claims that we can tell, these children adopt the Goth culture, which is a subculture of Punk, and reflect this culture. Trenchcoat Mafia They were members of the group, and that’s why they committed the murders. It was also among the rumors that they were ostracized and bullied by other children in high school just for this reason.

Could these thugs really have made the mistake of responding to the exclusion, oppression, and violence they experienced by scanning the entire school? also Eric and Dylan They were also said to have recorded videos of them reacting to bullying. On the other hand, none of these claims have been proven, and if they were, there would be no valid reason, of course.

Let’s take a break from this story and talk about “bullying”:

Studies show that one out of every five students (20.2%) experiences peer bullying. Particularly, groups of friends who ganged up in schools try to dominate children whom they consider weaker than themselves, victim puts it in position. Bullies can use psychological, physical and verbal forms of violence on their victims. This situation causes the victims to take their anger out on others after a while.

In even more advanced dimensions, the psychology of the victims is so deteriorated that they can carry tools such as knives with them when they come to school to defend themselves. Likewise, as we saw in this example, the end of the work mass murders, It can go as far as vandalism, involvement in crime, and substance use. The emergence of bullying is usually through having a bullying circle of friends.

Now, back to the Columbine high school massacre, we need to ask the question, “Why didn’t their teachers, families, and social circles notice or notice and ignore the psychology they lived in before these children unleashed such atrocities?” peer bullying It is an ongoing condition, unless prevented and stopped by adults. That is why we must say that the neglect of adults is great in this case as well.

Maybe these young people were treated negatively by their friends, yes, but the reward should not have been to take the lives of people. Even the families of the victims were asked how this vandalism was caused by the school administration. cannot be prevented was wondering.

Because later, the relatives of the deceased sued the school and the police. Most of these cases, however, were dismissed by the tribunal. For example, even refusing these cases and not punishing the school’s negligence is this type of thing. school bullying he can continue to feed, which he has already done.

After this incident, school massacres took place in the USA. to increase exponentially started. For example, on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech, a university in Virginia, Cho Seung-Hui took the lives of 32 people. Another sad event in more recent history occurred in May 2022 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Salvador Ramos

Salvador Ramos, 18, killed 19 students and 2 teachers in the school attack to lose his life caused. Moreover, those who died were small children aged 6-7 years. There are many such atrocities in the past of the USA that we have not yet counted, and we can say that the basis of them lies in the inability to prevent the bullying that begins in schools.

In the court case regarding the Columbine High School case, he was found guilty of selling guns to criminals. Mark Manes person was sentenced to prison. Another man, Philip Duran, who introduced this person to the children, was also sentenced. Of course, these developments were pleasing. But to reiterate, it was a pretty bad decision that school security went unpunished for allowing dangerous and explosive devices to be brought into the school.

As we said at the beginning, there are a lot of rumors about this event. However, research after the incident revealed the truth: In fact, it turned out that these two youths had already planned a brutality similar to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, during the year before the incident. In other words, as a result, they are the main actors of the murder, every moment of which they carefully commit. Dylan and Eric’s psychological state The fact that they were not seen by the adults around them caused them to harm both themselves and innocent people.

Movie: The Elephant (2003)

Even The Elephant The movie was inspired by the Columbine high school massacre. In short, this event turned into a black mark that all Americans could not shake off and mourn for a long time. What do you think is the reason for so many mass killings in schools in the USA? You can share your thoughts with us in the comments.