School shootings in the USA

On the day of April 20, 1999, in Columbine High school, Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two senior year students, planned and performed a bombing and a shooting that caused 13 deaths and injured 21 people. Luckily, some of the bombs they had set for that morning did not explode. Nevertheless, the Columbine High massacre remains the deadliest school shooting ever performed in the US, and perhaps the better known.

-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