Columbine
...as shot in the chest twice while directing students down the hallway to safety. Cassie Bernall, a former believer in witchcraft, was shot when the gunman asks, “who here believes in Jesus Christ” Cassie stood up and said “I do!”(yesibelieve.com) Daniel Rohrbough was brutally shot while holding an exit door open for panicked students, he died on the sidewalk a few steps from safety. His body laid outside for 24 hours! (columbine-memorial.org) Matthew ketcher was shot while trying to reach his friends in a video room. Other victims were Steven Curnow, Lauren Townsend, Kyle Velasquez, John Tomlin, Isaiah Shoels, Daniel Mauser, and Rachel Scott, Rachel’s younger brother Craig, pretended to be dead in the library and helped others to safety. (columbine-memorial.org) Police also found explosives around the out side of the High School. At about 12:30 SWAT teams search room by room for more explosives. Around 4:00 p.m. officers searching the library found bodies of both suspects with self-inflicted bullet wounds. The police declare the school safe, but the mark off the whole school as a massive crime scene. (columbine-memorial.org). After the tragedy, students have mixed feelings about going to school. Some thinks it will not happen to their school, others knowing for sure it’s going to happen to theirs, and some who are terrified to even step foot in their high school. Amber Burgess, a senior at Columbine High School, says “ One thing that wasn’t known before this tragedy is how strong our community is and we will triumph because (Students help me here…) We are Columbine! We are Columbine! We are Columbine!”(Burgess, Amber disastercenter.com). Despite the tragedy, students just want to get back to their normal lives. “If we don’t got back (Klebold and Harris) have won.”(Hacker, counciling.org) As we speak, councilors are helping out students with the tragic event. The students at the other high schools are so confident. I know me personally, I was afraid to go to school after I heard the terrible news. This impacted the world by changing the feelings about school and the safety they feel, before this event kids, didn’t think twice about safety. They never thought gun control was really on issue. Now they all want locks and protection in their schools, and that’s all they think about. Some students want police at their schools and metal detectors, but if you need metal detectors then do you really feel safe? Before this event schools didn’t really think twice about threats or gun safety in the school but now it’s their top priority. “I don’t think public schools will ever be the same because of that day.”(Klein, Martin) That is why Americans fearful of violence in their schools rose 50% during 1999. (nyssba.org) Some students don’t want high security or metal detectors because they think school will become like a prison, and if a person really wants to come in and shoot they will get past that. (councling.org) Teachers are now suppose to take every threat very seriously. Like a simple I will kill you, can land your bum in the police station to be questioned, let alone “ I hate the school I hope you all die by a bomb” then you will be expelled or al least suspended for a while. The public is now asking how did these boys get these guns? They were supplied by a Duran, 23. Duran worked with the killers at a pizzeria and introduced them to a guy named Mark Manes who sold them a TEC-DC9. He is now serving a six-year sentence. “The TEC-DC9 was fired 55 times and killed for and injured 2.” (Golden, the daily camera) the legal age to own a gun is 21, and if you don’t have a criminal back ground, they must do a back ground check and then the gun is all yours after you pay. It is very easy for a child or young adult to get a hold of a firearm. They can sneak into their parents room and get it, can have their friends get it, they may even have connections, say opinionist, Graig Shelber. He also thinks parents with kids under the age of 18 shouldn’t keep a firearm in the house to decrease the chance of an accident. Gun safety locks have been out for a long time, but with out enforcement. “We need to set goals and sick by them so everyone in America knows how this country feels about firearms mixing with our kids” says John Gramson, of...