Miranda Jarrett

In the movie Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore tries to get to the route as to why the shooting happened in the first place. There is a bank in Michigan that gives customers a free gun when they open an account with a certain amount of money. Right before Michael leaves, he asks “Don't you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns at a bank” and gets no reply. He blames the news because it makes us so scared.…...

On April 19th, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold brought an assortment of weapons into Columbine High School with a plan to kill as many as four hundred innocent students. In 2009, ten years after the massacre, Dave Cullen published a book, titled Columbine, which contains a decade's worth of research. After avidly reading the first 95 pages of the novel Columbine, by Dave Cullen, I was left hooked and wanting to read more. After reading the first couple chapters…...

Should Metal detectors be allowed in schools, no Metal detectors should not be allowed in schools because it has little to no effect of keeping a school safe? That going to school should be a safe place to go to and is not a prison the author is trying to inform us that having metal detectors is bad and can cause anxiety among students. . School shooting is an attack at an institution where there is at least one person…...

Dave Cullen portrays his fascination, determination, and collectionᶜᵒᵐᵐᵃ ʳᵘˡᵉ ⁴ of the Columbine massacre by writing a first-person perspective book on one of the shooters. He shows meticulous work on every detail of the boy's lives and accumulating to the horrid acts that they committed. Dave Cullen’s nonfiction book Columbine, that accounts of the Columbine school shooting, illustrates his cardinal point that we as people should reduce the act of violence, promote peaceful inclusive societies and provide justice for all.…...

On April 20th, 1999, in Littleton, Colorado, what seemed like a normal day for most teenagers turned into a horrific event that changed these students and teachers lives forever. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School around lunchtime and shot many of their classmates and teachers. After about 40 minutes of random shots, the two shooters shot themselves in the head, committing suicide. They killed thirteen of their classmates and teachers and wounded more than twenty. This day…...

The outcome of these tragedies is significant on not just the community in which they take place, but our nation as a whole. They lead to protests with people pointing fingers at anything and everything as the root cause of the tragedy. Parents become afraid to send their children to school. Following the Columbine shooting, schools across the United States started new security measures such as metal detectors, see through backpacks and school security guards. At the same time, police…...

Over 19 years ago on April 20th, 1999, a tragedy occurred. Two seniors whose names were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a killing spree that the two had been planning for over a year. This killing spree would result in the murders of twelve of their classmates and one teacher. The two teenagers also injured 24 other students, 21 were injured by gunfire and 3 were injured attempting to escape. The two boys would spend only minutes actively…...