Columbine High School Massacre
Columbine massacre refers to a massacre by two students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris,[1] who killed 12 students and a teacher, and wounded 23 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, a public school in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999.
The killers were anti-religion, anti-establishment, antisocial; they sought out as victims Christians and popular athletes. The killers were darwinists; they admired Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. The killers planned their attack beforehand and investigators later found descriptions in their notes about their intentions to kill. One of the murders wore a T-Shirt displaying the text "NATURAL SELECTION" on the day of the massacre.
Politicians cited the massacre in their demands for greater gun control, and congressional Democrats held highly publicized hearings to pass gun control legislation. But gun control became an issue that hurt liberal Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000, causing him to lose the election by losing the traditionally Democratic state of West Virginia, where the right to bear arms is valued. Since the 2000 election there have not been any significant political demands for gun control. Liberal socialist filmmaker Michael Moore used the incident as the backdrop for an anti-gun rights propaganda piece, Bowling For Columbine, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
A moving photo gallery of the young students is available online.[2] Also online is the official report of the massacre.[3]