On this day in 1999, two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, south of Denver. At approximately 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold, 18, and Eric Harris, 17, dressed in trench coats, began shooting students outside the school before moving inside to continue their rampage. By 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded another 23 people. Shortly after noon, the two teens turned their guns on themselves and committed suicide.
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The crime was the worst school shooting in U.S. history (until 33 people, including the gunman, were killed in the Virginia Tech shooting on April 16, 2007)and prompted a national debate on gun control and school safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what motivated the teen gunmen. In the days immediately following the shootings, it was speculated that Klebold and Harris purposely chose jocks, minorities and Christians as their victims. It was initially reported that one student, Cassie Bernall, was allegedly asked by one of the gunmen if she believed in God. When Bernall said, “Yes,” she was shot to death. Her parents later wrote a book titled “She Said Yes,” honoring their martyred daughter. Apparently, however, the question was not actually posed to Bernall but to another student who had already been wounded by a gunshot. When that victim replied, “Yes,” the shooter walked away. Subsequent investigations also determined that Harris and Klebold chose their victims randomly. Their original plan was for two propane bombs to explode in the school’s cafeteria, potentially killing hundreds of people and forcing the survivors outside and into the gunmen’s line of fire. When the bombs didn’t work, Harris and Klebold went into the school to carry out their murderous rampage.
There was speculation that Harris and Klebold committed the killings because they were members of a group of social outcasts called the “Trenchcoat Mafia” that was fascinated by Goth culture. Violent video games and music were also blamed for influencing the killers. However, none of these theories was ever proven. Columbine High School reopened in the fall of 1999, but the massacre left a scar on the Littleton community. Mark Manes, the man who sold a gun to Harris and bought him 100 rounds of ammunition the day before the murders, was sentenced to six years in prison. In the aftermath of the Columbine shootings, many schools enacted “zero tolerance” rules regarding disruptive behavior and threats of violence from students.
I always thought of this massacre as the 1st of the Ritalin babies making their mark.
It never comes out that most of these shooters were on anti-depressants.
“Shooter Eric Harris was taking the antidepressant Luvox at the time he and Dylan Klebold opened fire at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves. At least one public report exists of a friend of Klebold who witnessed Klebold taking the antidepressants Paxil and Zoloft and urged him to come off them. Officially, Klebold’s medical records remain sealed.
Luvox, Paxil and Zoloft are in a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Among the international regulatory agencies issuing warnings on these antidepressants, the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory in 2004 warning that “anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, impulsivity, akathisia [severe restlessness], hypomania [abnormal excitement] and mania [psychosis characterized by exalted feelings, delusions of grandeur and overproduction of ideas] have been reported in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants.” (For further information on international studies and warnings about antidepressants, go to CCHR International’s psychiatric drug side effects search engine.)
Luvox, Paxil and other antidepressants also made the top 10 list of violence-inducing prescription drugs in a report from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, which was based on data from the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (see “Study Reveals Top Ten Violence-Inducing Prescription Drugs [– Eight Are Psychiatric Drugs]”).”
History.com is an official, allowable, and sanitized version of history. Nothing as politically-incorrect as the TRUTH is ever allowed on their site. The vast majority of Americans are completely ignorant of the role powerful “anti-psychotic” drugs have played in nearly EVERY mass shooting in this country over the past 30 years. The pharmaceutical companies employ propaganda “swat teams” that converge on the scene of these mass shootings to begin paying off the families of the shooters to hide the truth, and paying off the local government folks to suppress the truth or the presence of these powerful drugs in their systems. As a result, parents are allowing their children to be prescribed these dangerous drugs by doctors who don’t care, school administrators who simply want to create more compliant “inmates,” and a pharmaceutical industry that simply does not care about the consequences of their profit-stream.
I once tied up my boat in Miami next to a 65′ sedan bridge yacht that was named PILLSbury Dough Boy-spelled this way. It was owned by a doctor who was gifted the boat (about $1.5mil) by a drug company for his ‘patronage’.
History.com neglected to mention that the hero cops huddled outside pissing in their black SWAT BDUs until the shooting stopped.
This is the MOST FAMOUS blunder of all time:
I take issue with the History.com account of this being the largest school shooting until 2007 VA Tech incident. Key word is shooting since there was a far greater loss of life at a school in the 1927 Bath School disaster. But that was an incendiary device and not an evil “gun” so it’s long forgotten into history…. At least Wikipedia maintains a page about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
I do remember that day in 1999 very well. The day two kids put a rather mundane town that I had once resided in on the national map. They also set in motion a fat ass hack filmmaker from Flint Michigan to imply all kinds of asinine shit like blaming K-Mart since they sold bullets. This event was the first in my memory where the tool was blamed over the person committing the crime.