WHAT MAKES A MAN SHOOT OTHERS AND THEN HIMSELF?

Columbine
On April 20th 1999 two high school students 18 year old Dylan Klebold and 17 year old Eric Harris walked into Columbine High in Littleton Colorado and in less than 15 minutes had shot and killed 12 students and a teacher, had injured 23 pupils and left thousands psychologically traumatised (Lawrence & Birkland, 2004 p1193). They then turned their guns on themselves. The boys were armed with 4 guns, over 900 rounds of ammunition (bought from the local K-Mart) and 50 explosive devices. It is interesting to note that this occurred about an hour after the largest US bombing in Kosovo (Moore, 2002). Littleton Colorado’s biggest employer is Lockheed Martin which is the world’s biggest weapons maker so weapons are an integral part of the town (Moore, 2002). Although the company accepts no responsibility for what happened at Columbine high school they do now offer anger management training to all the local schools.


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