Columbine Shooting Areas of Sociology
Ayesha Hussain 10HJS
Why did the ‘Columbine shooting’ happen?
The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on 20th of April 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold aged 18, embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students directly, with three further people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide.
Both students were average people with normal lives. Eric was a son to a U.S. Air Force transport pilot called Wayne Harris and His mum was a Housewife. The family moved from Plattsburgh, New York to Littleton Colorado, in July 1993, when Wayne Harris retired from military service. They bought a house just South of The Columbine High School. Dylan Klebold parents attended a Lutheran church with their children, and Dylan and his older brother Byron, attended confirmation classes in accordance with Lutheran tradition. At home, the family also observed some rituals in keeping with Klebold's maternal grandfather's Jewish heritage. Dylan was a very religious child who people would have thought to not be capable of such things.
Many say that there are many reasons to why this occurred. There are many macro and micro reasons. Macro reasons are big and are to do with the whole community whereas micro reasons are small individual reasons. For example a macro reason is the American culture because they think that having a gun isn’t a bad thing and everyone should have one to protect themselves. A micro reason is that both students failed in school so they decided to go kill the teachers and students at their school.
I have four reasons to why the shooting probably took place; two micro and macro. A micro reason is that it was said that both Klebold and Harris were isolated from the rest of their classmates, which made them feel helpless,
Why did the ‘Columbine shooting’ happen?
The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on 20th of April 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold aged 18, embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students directly, with three further people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide.
Both students were average people with normal lives. Eric was a son to a U.S. Air Force transport pilot called Wayne Harris and His mum was a Housewife. The family moved from Plattsburgh, New York to Littleton Colorado, in July 1993, when Wayne Harris retired from military service. They bought a house just South of The Columbine High School. Dylan Klebold parents attended a Lutheran church with their children, and Dylan and his older brother Byron, attended confirmation classes in accordance with Lutheran tradition. At home, the family also observed some rituals in keeping with Klebold's maternal grandfather's Jewish heritage. Dylan was a very religious child who people would have thought to not be capable of such things.
Many say that there are many reasons to why this occurred. There are many macro and micro reasons. Macro reasons are big and are to do with the whole community whereas micro reasons are small individual reasons. For example a macro reason is the American culture because they think that having a gun isn’t a bad thing and everyone should have one to protect themselves. A micro reason is that both students failed in school so they decided to go kill the teachers and students at their school.
I have four reasons to why the shooting probably took place; two micro and macro. A micro reason is that it was said that both Klebold and Harris were isolated from the rest of their classmates, which made them feel helpless,