The Columbine Shooting and what it mean for us and how to del with the shooting that America is dealing with,
Date Submitted: 07/11/2004 06:39:50
On April 20th, 1999 two teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into their school in Columbine Colorado and began a one-hour long killing spree, which ended in the death of 12 of their fellow classmates and one teacher and left another 28 wounded. The shooters then took their own lives. The two teenage gunmen did not have a previous history of violence but were both enthusiasts of killing-oriented video games. The violence in video games was a
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violence in video games for any medium is a dangerous thing to children who are at an age where they are easily influenced by the subjects around them. Video games promote an interest in guns, present a distorted reality, and may actually train people to be marksmen. Incidents like the Columbine school shooting, the worst school shooting in the history of the United States, are proof of the influence of heavy violence in today's games.
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