-It is interesting and particularly appalling to note that the bombing and the shooting were very carefully planned for over a year of secret video reports and schedules on paper.
-The initial plan was to blow up the school at 11:17 that morning, with several bombs set for that time inside the building which never exploded. Bombs set inside cars in the streets did explode though.
-They had then prepared 99 Molotov cocktails to light them inside the school.
- It all ended with the most fateful and unfair outcome: both Harris and Dylan committed suicide the very same day in the school library.
- the current library is called "Hope Columbine Memorial Library"
Harris and Dylan inside the cafeteria (survelliance camera shoot)
A swat team investigates in front of the main gate
Students visit a memorial set for the victims of the Columbine shooting
I have never watched any movies which deal with the subject of school shootings so I cannot decide which one tackles the issue best. However, from the list given in the website "a Columbine site" the one I would find most interesting to discover is probably Bang bang you're dead, which apparently tries to find some of the reasons why a teenager would come to the point of killing his fellow students.
The reasons most commonly given to explain the abnormal recurrence of this kind of shootings in the US are:
- Violence as a revenge, resulting from years of bullying
-Plainly a lack of consideration for human life
-The criminal having witnessed or suffered from violence at home
- Mental health issues
And llast but not least...
- The easy access to guns in the US
