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Columbine - School Essays

Columbine

School violence, is an issue that is hard to deal with. There are things that may be done to decrease it but it does not seem like it will ever go away. Parents send their children to school to learn, to have fun, to pass notes, and to meet new people, not to be shot at and never have the chance to come home ever again. They should not have to think or be afraid of sending their child to school and never seeing them. Last year one of the worst school shootings took place at High School. Not only did it effect the famlies of the victims and of the killers, pretty much the whole nation was involved and many people were brought in to figure out what had happened, and why it happened. ...

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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were armed with 95 explosive devices when they stormed in and began their terror. The explosives, enough to wipe out the school and hundreds of students, included 48 carbon dioxide bombs, 27 pipe bombs and 11 1.5-gallon propane containers. Most of the bombs did not explode. The two seniors also had seven devices with 40-plus gallons of flammable liquid and two duffel bags containing 20-pound liquefied-petroleum gas tanks. (USA Today, 1)
13 people were killed, while 22 others were injured in this horrible tragedy. The extent of their arsenal was not revealed until around the last week of March when members of the Littleton Fire Department met with Gov. Bill Owens' Review Commission, The Denver Post reported Monday.
''As bad as this was, we were so very, very lucky,'' said Chuck Burdick, operations chief of the Littleton Fire Department. ''It could have been so much worse.''
Following the April 20 massacre, authorities believed Klebold and Harris had ...

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