On April 30, 1999, Eric Harris and his best friend Dylan Klebold entered their school, Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado, and began to murder twelve fellow classmates and one teacher. ... After the immediate shock shank in people from the community began to question the cause to these killings and began to realize something else, how was this crime not prevented? ... Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold exhibited clear signs that they could cause major problems for the community, and if parents, teachers, and the police had paid attention, the massacre at Columbine could have been prevented. ... The Pentagon revealed that, just a few days prior to the killings, Eric was rejected by the Marines for taking the drug (Wilgroren 24). Friends claimed that he had stopped taking the drug the day of the killings because he didn’t want his rage to be controlled. ... A few weeks before the killings a girl hit Dylan’s car, she was reportedly shaking and crying afraid of what he might do to her because she knew he was associated with the Trench Coat Mafia. ...
Harris’s website is yet another foreshadowing prior to the Columbine killings. ... White America seems to have problems when identifying causes and people to such killings. ...
As Steinmen points out, “I’m superior because I kill”…these “senseless” killings begin to seem less mysterious when you consider that they were committed disproportionably by white, non-poor males, the group most likely to be hooked on the drug of superiority. ... He stopped taking his medication the day prior to the killings. ... Eric had his infamous aggressive website which outlined the killings of who and what. ... Eric Harris and Dylan Klemold exhibited clear signs that they could cause major problems for the community, and if the police, parents and teachers would have paid more attention to the obvious signs that were right in front of them, the massacre at Columbine high could have been prevented.
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