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    these events, the Columbine High School shooting comes to many as one that completely morphed America 's culture and sense of security. The assault was carried out by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, students of the school and close friends. They had nourished the idea, feeding it hours of attention and deep consideration. Then, they went forward with it on April 20, 1999. The boys took the event seriously, setting up decoy bombs and then positioning their vehicles in the school parking lot with an

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    The Columbine massacre was one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. On April 20, 1999, high school seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students, one teacher, and themselves. Twenty-five students were also injured, some very critically. While there had been many school shootings in America prior to this, the young age of the shooters, the number of victims, and the randomness of the people they killed shocked the nation. It has been 14 years since this tragedy and

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    "need for protection" against violent entanglements, has increased throughout history, providing properties such as gun manufacturing companies with a higher level of attention and financial elevation. In Michael Moore's documentary, Bowling for Columbine; the film portrays a strong connection between violence and the media with the latter creating a culture of fear through fear mongering; spreading terror across the country and, in turn, inspiring desperate action against violence which could eventually

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    semi-automatic rifle from a bag, relentlessly killing 35 innocent people and injuring another 23. The Port Arthur massacre was a pinnacle turning point in Australia’s history as the prime minister of the time, John Howard, introduced the National Firearms Agreement, banning all semi-automatic and automatic rifles alongside pump action shotguns http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/port-arthur-massacre-shooting-spree-changed-australia-gun-laws-n396476. Ever since the introduction of the National Firearms Agreement

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    understand the gun violence laws in America to accept the arguments and ideas presented in his documentary, Bowling for Columbine. Michael more is an American Activist, film maker and author. One of his first documentaries was called Bowling for Columbine. The documentary, Bowling for Columbine was made in 2002, after the Columbine High School shooting and what lead the massacre happening in the first place. In the documentary, Moore tries to investigate the reason for America’s relaxed gun laws and

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    Bowling for Columbine is a documentary produced post-Columbine high school shooting in Littleton, Colorado. Michael Moore, the director of the film, seeks to find an explanation for the unusually high rates of gun violence in the United States. Moore deconstructs the Columbine massacre, other school shootings, American gun culture, media’s impact on the American public, gun history, and politics to comprehend why such tragedies involving firearms occur. Specifically in the first part of the film

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    and his documentary Bowling for Columbine. Michael Moore explores the lead up to the Columbine massacre and more broadly, the proliferation of guns and rapidly growing homicide rate in America. Moore also investigates the reason as to why Canada, in comparison to America, does not have the same rate of gun related crimes. The alarming and disturbing tragedy befalling on April 20, 1999 at America’s Columbine High School is an act reflecting the extraordinarily high rate of gun related violence of

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    off to school. Neither worried about the other, or how their day would turn out. But, hours later everything changed (“Columbine Highschool Massacre.”). Little did the residents of Columbine, Colorado know their high school would be a statistic for one of the largest school massacres in US History. On this day, two teenage boys were responsible for killing 12 innocent students and a teacher, wounding 23 more students, and then killing themselves (Miller). While a horrific event, the Columbine tragedy

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    03-03-17 US Student Massacre How would you feel if you sent your children to school... and they never came back? School shootings used to not occur very often, but since 1999, when the United States Student Massacre began, there has been a major rise in the amount of school shootings in the United States. In just the eighteen months after the Sandy Hook shooting there was a total of 74 school shootings in the United States (Fantz, Knight, and Wang). Having that many school shootings in such a

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    The Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999 took place in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and was described as one of the worst mass shootings in the U.S history and the deadliest incident of school violence. The perpetrators were two students who attended Columbine High School: Eric Harris,18, and Dylan Klebold,17. Young Harris and Klebold killed 12 students, 1 teacher and wounded more than 20 others. The weapons utilized by Harris and Klebold for the attack consisted of; a Hi-Point 995

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