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Columbine High School Shooting And Virginia Tech University Shooting

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Taking a look at the Columbine high school shooting and the Virginia Tech University shooting, they followed different and similar situations. When these events occurred they both reached the record of worst mass shootings in U.S. history. On April 20, 1999, the Columbine shooting occurred early morning in which most of the students had already filled the school. The columbine shooters intentions to murder the students at the school were pre-meditated and were determined to destroy as much lives as possible. As for the Virginia tech shooting, it occurred 4 days before the 8th anniversary of the columbine shooting in which the shooter also referenced the two columbine shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. As the events developed throughout the morning, they both conquered one goal, fear amongst all students and faculty. On the morning of April 20, 1999 Eric and Dylan took the lives of 13 innocent people, 12 students and 1 teacher and needless to say wounded dozens. Their plans began just a year before the massacre and it possibly could have been prevented. The duo had gotten arrested the previous year due to them stealing electronics from a van. Throughout the year they recorded all of their plans in videos, journals and established signs in their school work. In these videos they also included an apology to their parents for the pain they were going to bring. As their time came to unravel their raged expressions, they purchased guns and ammo and created homemade bombs to

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