School shootings in the USA

The shooters:    Dylan Klebold:

Dylan Klebold picture

His personal diary:

Dylan's diary

Dylan's diary's entry

                      














  Eric Harris:

Eric Harris picture

His personal diary:

Eric's diary's entry

Eric's diary's entry

Eric's diary's entry

       As we have seen we are in front of two guys who look they are non mind healthy. We can see it on their diaries' entries. They cross out lots of words and lots of drawings because they might get confused and they don't know how to express themselves properly. They speak about killing people and we can see they look happy when they talk about it Dylan says "Have fun!" when he's speaking about puting bombs and making them exploud. This is actually horrible. How much these guys' minds have had suffer to be happy when they think about killing other people?


Here some interesting facts about the Columbine High School shooting:

"As for the author, you won't find much about me on this website as this site isn't about me. It's about the Columbine High School massacre: What happened before, during and after the shootings, and the people who were directly affected. I only added this page because I've had so many emails over the years asking about how and why I started what's become a behemoth of an information resource."

"I was less than satisfied with the way the media was covering the event. Rumors and speculation were presented as fact; mainstream television and corporate news sites initially seemed more interested in sensationalizing things than finding out what actually happened"

"I knew the true story was lurking out there somewhere so I started digging around, online and off. I put up a website on a free web host: A single site with a list of the known names of the dead, updated as they became available, and information about where the event had happened. In the days that followed I dug as deep as I could to get the real story that the media just couldn't seem - or didn't want - to piece together."

"The chaos and terror inside Columbine High School on the day of the shootings was horrifying; a person was lucky to escape it."

"When the assault began, people ran in any direction they felt was safe. Some chose better than others. Some ran and kept running."

Who were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Why did they do what they did? Together these two young men were brought to the world's attention when they laid siege to Columbine High School the morning of April 20, 1999. Before that day they were just a couple of American high school seniors only two weeks away from graduation... or so those who knew them believed. For well over a year before the shooting the boys had been making plans to attack their school and the people in it."

Rank	Reason	% Agreeing
1	They want to get back at those who have hurt them.	87
2	Other kids pick on them, make fun or them, or bully them.	86
3	They don't value life.	62

So now, these are some interesting facts given in the web site of the horrible event of this High School. The author tells why did he sart with this web site and how did he get all the information and all that things that look very interesting.

Series and movies that show this kind of horrible events:


AMERICAN HORROR STORY, SEASON NUMBER 1: KYLE'S SCHOOL SHOOTING:
Just as the web site says,
"One of the main characters in this season is a school shooter who killed 15 people. The writers of the show used a real internet search page in one episode where they edited "Columbine" to read "Westfield" but the rest of the search results obviously reference the Columbine shooting. The subject of the shooting reappears several times throughout the season. Aired 2011."

Shooting scene in American Horror Story season 1

Victims of the school shooting

ELEPHANT:
Just as the web site says,
"School-shooting movie told from the point of view of someone the shooters let go before the killing starts. Directed by the guy who directed Good Will Hunting and put out by New Line Cinema, it's probably the highest-budget film of its genre. While this meant it's better quality than most, it also unfortunately meant that a lot of people who saw this film didn't know anything about Columbine before. They then thought Elephant was a true-to-life retelling of what actually happened. It and Zero Day (see further down) caused a lot of confusion in their time. This film includes a gay scene in a shower between the shooters pre-assault that set off loads of renewed rumors about the Columbine shooters' sexuality."

Shooters going to the school

One of the shooters

Both shooters

Shooter after having killed his class mates

I think this film and this series show very well how this school shooting was felt by the victims. The American Horror Story version is just a way to give a past to the character but actually this is the way we can feel as well the pain this character was suffering to do it. The Elephant version shows us a much detailed version of this event. It shows more what the people suffered than what the guys who did it did.
I think having both version is very good because in a same version you can't do it at the same time, one of the view points, is a little bit hidden by the other one. In the elephant version, for example, they explain why they did it because of video games, what I think is a little bit short explanation of what happened. These people must have suffered and they might not have had access to any help. I not saying they were in their right to do it, I will never defend violence, but I personnaly thing that in this film they give a very poor excuse for what they did, they didn't have the whole fault.