10 years on, Columbine's hold remains strong.

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LITTLETON, Colo. - Teenage gunmen spilled the blood of children before Columbine, in Alaska, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oregon. After Columbine, more blood was shed in Minnesota and California, in Germany and Finland.

But none of those incidents cast a shadow as long or dark as the rampage at Columbine High School, where 13 people were gunned down 10 years ago Monday.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, seniors at the suburban Denver school, detonated homemade bombs and opened fire with shotguns, a rifle and a semiautomatic handgun on April 20, 1999. They killed 12 students, injured 23 others and mortally wounded a teacher before committing suicide.

The shooting shocked the country like no other. It was the worst school shooting in American history at that time, and it came in the wake of a half-dozen others. It played out on live television, watched by millions. And it represented the violent destruction of a cherished American idea: that schools in the suburbs and the countryside were havens of peace and safety.

"It's the iconic shooting," said Katherine S. Newman, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. "It defined the social category of a rampage school shooting."

Americans were on edge about school violence before Columbine. During the previous two years, at least 16 students and teachers had died in school shootings in small American cities and towns: Bethel, Alaska; Pearl, Miss.; West Paducah, Ky.; Jonesboro, Ark.; Edinboro, Pa.; Fayetteville, Tenn.; and Springfield, Ore.

All the killers were teenage boys, except one, an 11-year-old boy.
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Read more: 10 years on, Columbine's hold remains strong - Columbine: 10 Years Later- msnbc.com
 
I remember that day..I was working as a sub teacher in AZ and the other teacher came into my classroom to tell me what she heard on the radio and started crying. I didnt understand the magnitude of it until I saw the news later on that night. Not only that, my cousins attended the elementary school a few blocks away. It hit tooo close to home.
 
Yup, I remember about Columbine, it was time when I was in 5th grade and same year when my half brother was in 12th grade then graduated in 1999.
 
i remember Columbine i was working that day it was shocked day when i found out later.
 
jillio said:
Debunking the myths:

Debunking the myths of Columbine, 10 years later - CNN.com
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There's another link debunking the myth of "Yes, I do" by Cassie when she was asked if she believed in God and she got shot. Cassie's parents promoted her "Christian martyrdom" and wrote a book about her even tho they knew she never said that. The FBI said it never happened. The exchange happened to another student, not Cassie, and she survived the shooting and told her story. That surviving teen was extremely disturbed by the lies promoted by those Christians.

Salon News | Inside the Columbine High investigation

And no, they were NOT on antidepressants like Prozac.
 
netrox said:
There's another link debunking the myth of "Yes, I do" by Cassie when she was asked if she believed in God and she got shot. Cassie's parents promoted her "Christian martyrdom" and wrote a book about her even tho they knew she never said that. The FBI said it never happened. The exchange happened to another student, not Cassie, and she survived the shooting and told her story. That surviving teen was extremely disturbed by the lies promoted by those Christians.

Salon News | Inside the Columbine High investigation

And no, they were NOT on antidepressants like Prozac.
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Exactly.
 
Myth or no myth... These kids or schools, should not be compared by how many deaths were in results. This has became an epidemic.

Just saying. Due to the media is portraying it as... This school has had it worse than that school.

To me.. It doesn't matter. One death, one shooting by a fellow classmate is horrendous! Regardless.
 
i didnt remind about Arkansas got shooting but my family and my grandma never tell me about Arkansas got shooting that got attack in Jonesboro,Arkansas where my dad's old home.
 
I do remember about the Columbine shootings back then, I watched it on news and talked to friend about it, it was sad.
 
I was in 8th grade when Jonesboro happened and in 9th grade when Columbine happened. About Cassie, local churches here were even promoting it, one of Cassie's 'friends' came and told of Cassie's strong belief in Christianity and how her words converted him to the faith and blah blah. It was really disheartening that our local churches had actually bought into that rubbish. Makes you question the rest of Christianity. Things like that only raise more questions rather than provide more answers.
 
indeed... indeed... a very very sad chapter of our life that we have in our memory for rest of our life. I pray that our next generation will not experience anything like this again.

I saw the picture of deceased Trenchcoat Mafias just a short while ago and it was a very disheartening sight.
 
After Columbine shooting, some schools in southeast states have adopt the clear and mesh backpack only.

It wouldn't work because students can manage to hide the gun in clear or mesh backpack, even girls does bring purses and athletic students does bring small luggage that where some guns could be fit.
 
Yea I remember when I was in 8th grade. Truly was one of the most deadly shootings in history.
 
jillio said:
Debunking the myths:

Debunking the myths of Columbine, 10 years later - CNN.com
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I knew there was something fishy about the whole thing when I first heard about the school shooting, because if the boys were to take a revenge against the bullies, they would have gone after them right? They had propane bombs that could have killed everyone in the entire school, are they actually telling us that every student in Columbine was a bully? I knew there was something else behind the whole Columbine shooting.
 
Jiro said:
indeed... indeed... a very very sad chapter of our life that we have in our memory for rest of our life. I pray that our next generation will not experience anything like this again.

I saw the picture of deceased Trenchcoat Mafias just a short while ago and it was a very disheartening sight.
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The kids that did the Columbine shooting were not members of the Trenchcoat Mafia.
 
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