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Columbine High School Massacre
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Columbine High School Massacre
An event that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado, in which two heavily armed students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, attacked their schoolmates, killing 12 students and one teacher and injuring another 21 students. The pair then committed suicide
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Eric Harris, one of the gunmen in the infamous 1999 Columbine tragedy had been prescribed an anti-depressant; as had Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents and classmates at Thurston High School in Oregon in 1998.
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The Columbine tragedy opened the nation's eyes to the importance of school safety and the prevention of violence in schools, and we've made some worthwhile progress.
Columbine revisited: what we've learned in the five years after the ... by Pascopella, Angela / District Administration
Throughout the documentary Moore reveals unnerving and angering statistics: the day that the Columbine tragedy occurred, the United States dropped more bombs on Kosovo than at any other time during the war; in Toronto, Canada--a city of millions--citizens don't even lock their doors; and 90 percent of the guns in the United States are bought in white suburbs where there's hardly any violent crime.
Bowling for Columbine: Are We a Nation of Gun Nuts or Are We Just ... by Waak, Erika / The Humanist
 
 
 
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