Columbine school shooting: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
we all know about the dealiest massacre that took place on 20th April 1999 on the grounds of The columbine high school. The massacre claimed the lives of 12 students, a teacher and wounded several others, before the perpetrators; Eric Harris and dylan Klebold took their own lives.
I can't imagine anything more poignant than this, several factors were considered to find out what drove the young boys to take a step like that. So whats your take on it, was it bullying, violent video games and movies or anything else that could have been responsible for this.
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It can't have just been one thing. So let's take a look, although I feel almost ashamed at prying into something so tragic. I suppose it's necessary to keep trying to prevent this awful shit. Video games. That can't have been it, unless it just exacerbated some preexisting violent tendencies. Plenty of kids play violent video games; not too many brutally massacre their classmates. My opinion is that these were just two messed up kids who got together and got angry. Maybe they had bad home lives; maybe they had chemical imbalances. Whatever happened, when they came together, they found something in common, and they turned their 'inner anger' and any inner sadness and turned it out. The bullying makes me angry. I believe it could've been prevented. Maybe if some asshole kids hadn't been such assholes, maybe if someone had offered to sit with these kids at lunch or hang out with them or something, I don't know, shit, maybe it could've been avoided. It makes me sound like a damn hippy, but maybe if someone just showed them some love, you know? The world doesn't have to be full of hate and violence and anger. I don't know. I'm ill and tired and rambling. I'm sorry for spoiling an incredible debate, if I have. Sorry sorry. Side: Too much hate
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I totally concur with you, video games cant possibly drive anyone to do that that was all the newspapers were bumbling about when this happened, seriously the journos are full of bullshit sometimes*.... They were misunderstood teenagers, the bullying might have caused them to turn to violent video games, possibly because the brutal acts in those video games were the exact representation of what they wanted to do to those bullies. Its just really sad, and I guess we all need to be a little hippy, call it corny or whatever. Its easy to label Harris and Klebold as maniacs for what they did but they were not the only ones responsible for it. Side: Too much hate
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