First and foremost the Columbine High School massacre took place on April, 20th, 1999. Two young men injured 24 people and killed 15 more, including themselves. The situation was critique, people, in this desperate moment, could just have moral support between each others. At times like that, the human ties become stronger because this tragic event, concerns everyone of them.
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Families and friendship were broken forever because of two American High School seniors named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Apparently, they wanted to take revenge on the people they accused of picking on and snubbing them, so that they organized during almost a year the massacre. This thought can just born in a sick mind with no moral and ethic. Because is not possible that of an entire school, everybody hate them and even if they were besieged by one or two students, this is not a reason and it's obviously not the solution to try to kill the whole school because is not their fault.
The two killers have a diary, Both are hair-raising. We can find in there hateful messages to their class mates but also swastikas, or things written like "SS" or "KKK". Once again this shows that extremism is very dangerous and we have to stop it before the worst happens.
One series that deals with school shooting is American Horror Story (season 1) where, Tate Langdon, one of the main characters, painted on skeleton, murders around 7 students in the library. Tate thinks they hate him but they didn't. After this episode his mind just deleted this chapter of his life.
The USA is a heterogenous country with a lot of violence in the school from bullying to school shooting. Reasons are different,some people may think that this mix of cultures is a cause of harassment (Because usually people don't accept o don't like what is different or unusual for them). Bullying is always a ripple effect, people that suffered bullying usually get revenge doing bullying to others or in this extreme case: killing. The fact that others did bullying to them make them devalue life doing drugs, getting bad marks and even breaking the relationship with their parents.
Pretty well done and quite personal.
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