Even though they earned good grades in school, their works often featured violent imagery. Adding onto his existing rage, Harris was rejected by the US Marine Crops because of his psychiatric medication for his depression. They soon started to acquire guns and learn how to make bombs. On April 20, which was also Hitler's birthday, they planted a bomb in the cafeteria. They were planning to set the bomb off which forces everyone to evacuate, and they would shoot people as they run out to the parking lot. The plan didn't work, so they entered the buildings and began shooting random students and teachers. 12 students and a teacher were killed.,
Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic Columbine shooting.
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While they had committed small crimes before, it seems like the denial of entry into the Marine Corps was what encouraged them to start collecting guns. Filled with violent thoughts and wishes, the Marine Corps might have appealed to Harris as an outlet for him to express it, but not being allowed in the Corps made him choose another path. It brings up the question of what would have happened if he had been accepted into the Marine Corps, or what would have happened if he had just been given the professional mental support he needed.
The Columbine massacre was truly an atrocious event. It has spawned far too many copycat killers, even in recent years. There are even a number of websites that pay "homage" to Harris and Klebold.
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