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Two students arrived at school and began shooting people. They appeared to target athletes. They also killed a teacher while he was evacuating some students. They also planted some homemade bombs which failed to detonate. They ended up in the Library where they shot several students and then took their own lives.
They were members of a "Trench Coat" club, the existence of which was denied by the school's Principal until shown a yearbook picture of the group. He also tried to deny that Klebold and Harris were students at the school.
The incident changed the way that police departments respond to those situations, instead of awaiting the arrival of the SWAT unit officers are now trained to do immediate building entry and clearance.
Two students arrived at school and began shooting people. They appeared to target athletes. They also killed a teacher while he was evacuating some students. They also planted some homemade bombs which failed to detonate. They ended up in the Library where they shot several students and then took their own lives.
They were members of a "Trench Coat" club, the existence of which was denied by the school's Principal until shown a yearbook picture of the group. He also tried to deny that Klebold and Harris were students at the school.
The incident changed the way that police departments respond to those situations, instead of awaiting the arrival of the SWAT unit officers are now trained to do immediate building entry and clearance.
That sounds awful. Why would they do such a thing?
Two students arrived at school and began shooting people. They were members of a "Trench Coat" club
Actually, they weren't members of the Trench Coat Mafia but that myth was perpetuated by the media. There's a lot of misinformation about this crime. To the OP, read the book Columbine by Dave Cullen. The author spent ten years researching this crime and dispelled many of the myths about it (the fact that Harris and Klebold were bullied, for one.) Debunking the myths of Columbine, 10 years later - CNN.com
Actually, they weren't members of the Trench Coat Mafia but that myth was perpetuated by the media. There's a lot of misinformation about this crime. To the OP, read the book Columbine by Dave Cullen. The author spent ten years researching this crime and dispelled many of the myths about it (the fact that Harris and Klebold were bullied, for one.) Debunking the myths of Columbine, 10 years later - CNN.com
Interesting. So many people claimed that they were popular and weren't bullied. It seems as if it wasn't case.
They were definitely not popular. Many thought Harris had anti-social tendencies, and Klebold's mother said in an interview years later that he was most likely severely clinically depressed, although she and her husband weren't aware of it while their son was alive.
I remember it quite well, even though I was only a sixth grader at the time. We had a bomb threat at my school just 15 days later, which was taken very seriously in the wake of Columbine; we all had to evacuate and were dismissed early.
I don't remember it that well, but I do remember how it affected other schools and the media kept talking about it. My school (in NJ) got obsessed with who was bullied and who were bullies.
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