Spree Killings: Columbine High School
Spree killings
Eva vollera
FP6030/Research and Evaluation
Instructor : Dr. Carol Aslan, Ph.D.
June 25, 2012 Argosy University
Abstract
Spree Killings is when three or more killings happens’ without any cooling off period, this often happens at two or more locations. Though cases like the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in April 1999, where two teenage boys carried out shootings killing 12 students and one teacher as well as injuring 20 more students and ultimately leading up to the two boys own suicides and the end of the killing spree, was done at one location, the school. Even though there had been shootings at other schools prior to the Columbine shooting it was the …show more content…
Two characteristics that came up during studies of school shootings were peer rejection and social rejection. The studies from the literatures also reveals that the intentions of the assailants are often made very clear to their peers often stating time and place. It was shown that 50 percent of school shootings were made known to others, this is known as leakage. It was shown that the Columbine shooters repeatedly let known of their intentions and planned a year a head prior to the incident being carried out. For instance one of the boys English papers stated that the boy wanted to be a bullet himself and strike people, this was 2-3 weeks prior to the shooting. They had built small bombs that they were caught with. One month prior to the shooting one of the boys, Erik Harris, revealed in his psychology class that he had a recurring dream that he started shooting the students and the teachers. He also revealed in his diary that everyone made fun of him. Dylan Klebold , the other shooter wrote in his diary that he was lonely and without friends and was very troubled with his failures with girls (Bartol …show more content…
She also took in consideration 22 year old Jared Loughner who in 2011, shooting of Congress woman Gabriel Gliffords, which took place in Arizona and killing 6 people as well as injuring 13 individuals. Even though there might be a correlation between these shootings I find that school shootings differ from the last two examples that involved individuals carrying out acts against individuals they did not know. Where as in the school shootings the shooters knew most of their victims and did not seem to suffer from a mental disorder. The article states that most involving individuals are not intimately known to the shooter , I disagree. In the shooting at Columbine High school, Virginia Tech and Columbine shooters Harris and Klebold whom meticulously planned their shooting of their high school a year in advance and definitely knew their 12 victims they killed May 1, 2001 at their high school. The article also brings up the importance of understanding the rampage killings in order to create preventive measures that are taking in the consideration of different situations, this I
Eva vollera
FP6030/Research and Evaluation
Instructor : Dr. Carol Aslan, Ph.D.
June 25, 2012 Argosy University
Abstract
Spree Killings is when three or more killings happens’ without any cooling off period, this often happens at two or more locations. Though cases like the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in April 1999, where two teenage boys carried out shootings killing 12 students and one teacher as well as injuring 20 more students and ultimately leading up to the two boys own suicides and the end of the killing spree, was done at one location, the school. Even though there had been shootings at other schools prior to the Columbine shooting it was the …show more content…
Two characteristics that came up during studies of school shootings were peer rejection and social rejection. The studies from the literatures also reveals that the intentions of the assailants are often made very clear to their peers often stating time and place. It was shown that 50 percent of school shootings were made known to others, this is known as leakage. It was shown that the Columbine shooters repeatedly let known of their intentions and planned a year a head prior to the incident being carried out. For instance one of the boys English papers stated that the boy wanted to be a bullet himself and strike people, this was 2-3 weeks prior to the shooting. They had built small bombs that they were caught with. One month prior to the shooting one of the boys, Erik Harris, revealed in his psychology class that he had a recurring dream that he started shooting the students and the teachers. He also revealed in his diary that everyone made fun of him. Dylan Klebold , the other shooter wrote in his diary that he was lonely and without friends and was very troubled with his failures with girls (Bartol …show more content…
She also took in consideration 22 year old Jared Loughner who in 2011, shooting of Congress woman Gabriel Gliffords, which took place in Arizona and killing 6 people as well as injuring 13 individuals. Even though there might be a correlation between these shootings I find that school shootings differ from the last two examples that involved individuals carrying out acts against individuals they did not know. Where as in the school shootings the shooters knew most of their victims and did not seem to suffer from a mental disorder. The article states that most involving individuals are not intimately known to the shooter , I disagree. In the shooting at Columbine High school, Virginia Tech and Columbine shooters Harris and Klebold whom meticulously planned their shooting of their high school a year in advance and definitely knew their 12 victims they killed May 1, 2001 at their high school. The article also brings up the importance of understanding the rampage killings in order to create preventive measures that are taking in the consideration of different situations, this I