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    children to be dying in schools . In the 2012 massacre in Newtown Connecticut , about 20 children and 6 adults lives were taken that day . During the year of 1999 in Columbine High School , 12 teenagers and one teacher was killed that day . During 2007 in Virginia Tech there were 32 killed and wounded. Shouldn't we being doing something about this all these kids are losing their lives , and on top of all of they’re young and haven't got to see their future yet . Schools need more security because

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    On April 20, 1999, two teens went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide. The crime was the worst high school shooting in U.S. history and prompted a national debate on gun control and school safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what motivated the gunmen, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17. There was speculation that the two committed

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    Throughout the decade, violence in high schools and colleges has been dramatically increasing and taking a toll on society. The Columbine High School Massacre in Colorado, the sixteen year old boy beaten to death in Chicago, the Virginia Tech rampage, and the death of Yale student Annie Le should encourage government officials to discover a precise solution to cease this type of violent behavior. It seems like every time we read the newspaper, or turn on the TV, someone has been murdered or severely

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    The day of the Columbine Massacre is a day that will forever burn a hole in America’s heart. The nation was shocked at the news that on April 20, 1999, high school seniors Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris went on a precisely planned shooting rampage at their school, Columbine High School. This event killed a total of thirteen individuals, including twelve students and one highly heroic teacher, and wounded many. The reportedly troubled boys had often accused others of having bullied them, which raised

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    The Tragedy Of A Lifetime

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    of a school. There had been a shooting. The headline shown across the top. A school in Littleton, Colorado was under attack (“Massacre at Columbine High (Special Report)”). Multiple versions of the story were told, yet only one rang true. “Two senior students had fired guns and detonated explosives at the school” (Gimpel 7). The massacre started early on the morning of April 20th (Gerdes 4). The gunmen, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had skipped the first three hours of the school day (“Student

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    Gun Control, A Real Solution to Gun Violence? Analysis of the Film Bowling for Columbine One important issue that has raised over the past two decades is the gun control debate, whether gun control is a real solution to decrease the violence in the country or not. While some groups defend that restricting the laws regarding to gun possession, will decrease the statistics of gun murders in the country, other groups pro-gun rights not only sustain these measures will not make any significant change

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    in Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore is a documentary film maker known for his controversial opinions and subject matter. This documentary, Bowling for Columbine (2002), is Moore’s second major film. It was named in response to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in which two boys went on a shooting spree, thirteen people were killed and upwards of twenty were wounded. The two boys were reported to have spent the morning before the massacre bowling. Despite its title, Moore’s

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    It’s a new record for America on April 20th, 1999, a deadly mass shooting occurred in Columbine High School. Two years later, September 11, 2001, a terrorist assault was fulfilled in New York City. It was a new America, changed, and distraught. People sought out for guns and protection of all sorts; but while the American public was in a panic, Michael Moore saw an opportunity. He saw the epidemic spreading, invading the American people like an unwanted pest that couldn’t be shook. It is no new

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    writings, eric`s writings, why they did it, and what happened to the schools after the shooting. The events that day started out when Eric Harris arrives alone at the student parking lot at columbine high school and parks his 1986 gray honda civic in a space assigned to another student in the south junior parking

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    Eighteen years ago on April 20, 1999, two students identified as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold besieged Columbine High School in Colorado. Infamously known now as the Columbine Massacre, it was, at the time, “ the worst school shooting in U.S. history” (Obmascik, 1999, para. 1) with 15 causalities including the perpetrators themselves. Despite occurring in a small town in Colorado, the event shook the entire country. The shooting became a national ordeal as America watched "the murders being broadcast[ed]

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