Which one was it for the Columbine Massacre?

Teen violence runs rampant across our country. Sadly, it happens everywhere. Unfortunately it hit a town in Colorado. The town of Littleton was not ready for America’s most deadly high school shooting. April 20, 1999 was a sunny day for the students at Columbine High School (Sampson 1a). Silence of a normal school day was broken at 11:30 am. Two boys stormed the school with guns blazing and bombs exploding, wearing long black trench coats. Witnesses said that they first targeted specific people especially jocks and ethnic minorities. The bloody rampaged spanned for four long, terrifying hours (Obmascik 1a).

“I saw a girl get shot because she was praying to God,” said Evan Todd, 15, sophomore. “They shot a black kid. They called him a nigger. They said they didn’t like niggers so, they shot him in the face” (Obmascik1 a). One student recounted the killers mocking Isaiah Shoels’ (the African American boy who was shot) murder, saying that the brains that spilled out were awesome (Obmascik 2a).

These two sick individuals reeked havoc at this school for four hell-raising hours.

Eric and Dylan both agreed that people in Hollywood would be fighting over their story. Both had different opinions to which director would portray their story the best. Steven Spielberg and Quinton Taratino were their top two choices. They wanted the plot of the movie to be about payback (Gibbs 43).

What does it take for two seniors to become so filled with hate that they would design such a plot? In both of their lives, the two boys showed signs. Some signs were subtle, some signs were blatant. What drove these two boys to become killers? Was it family, entertainment, peer cliques, racism, or desire for a claim to fame? Each boy showed similar signs of hatred.

The facts from the video shows they were totally serious. The list of people they wanted to kill from the video proves that their targets were not just whites. Eric blatantly says, “…niggers, spics, Jews, gays…it will be all over soon” (Gibbs 42). The ironic thing about their hatred to the Jews is that Eric’s mother is from a Jewish descent (Simpson 20a). This does not prove they are full-blooded racist yet, but a comment to a young man before his murder does.

Eric’s website showed their plan and reasons for the massacre (Pooley 27). The website had geysers of hate, like Eric’s message to the jocks “…blow up and shoot everything I can…I don’t care if I live or die in the shootout all I want to do is kill and injure as many of you as I can…”(Pooley 28). The most compelling line from the video is also aimed towards the jocks. Eric tells them, “I am coming…soon and I will be armed to the f—king teeth and I will shoot to kill” (Gibbs 43). Not only does he threaten the jocks but also ethnic minorities.

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