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|title = Columbine High School massacre

|title       = Columbine High School massacre

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|location = [[Littleton, Colorado|Littleton]], Colorado, United States

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|target = Students and faculty at [[Columbine High School]].

| label      = Columbine

|date = April 20, 1999

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|time = 11:19 am – 12:08 pm

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|timezone = [[UTC-6]]

|type = [[School shooting]], [[mass murder]], [[wikt:massacre|massacre]], [[murder-suicide]], [[suicide attack]], [[improvised explosive device|improvised explosives]]

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The '''Columbine High School Massacre''' was a [[school shooting]] at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, near [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]], [[Colorado]] on April 20, 1999.

 

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two [[student]]s at the school, came to school armed with [[shotgun]]s and [[assault rifle]]s. They walked through the school firing randomly at other students and teachers. Before killing themselves in the school's library, they killed 12 students and a teacher, and hurt 24 other students.

The '''Columbine High School massacre''' was a [[school shooting]] and [[attempt]]ed [[improvised explosive device|bombing]] at Columbine High School in [[Littleton, Colorado]], near [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]], that happened on April 20, 1999. Eighteen-year-old [[Eric Harris]] and 17-year-old [[Dylan Klebold]] carried out the massacre and were both students at the school. They [[mass murder|murdered]] 12 students and one teacher using [[firearm|guns]]. Ten of the murders happened in the school's [[library]], where they then [[suicide|killed themselves]] with their guns. Before the shootings, they had planted two large [[propane]] [[improvised explosive device|bombs]] in the school's cafeteria. They could have killed many people in there, but did not explode. They also planted two [[car bomb]]s in the school's parking lot, which were supposed to kill [[first responder]]s and [[news reporter]]s. They also didn't explode. They also carried [[pipe bomb]]s and [[molotov cocktail]]s, which they lit and threw. Most of them exploded but nobody was injured or killed by any of the bombs used during the massacre.

It was one of the first well-known [[:wikt:massacre|massacres]] at a school in the [[United States]], and the one with the most deaths until the [[Virginia Tech massacre]] in 2007.

It was one of the first well-known [[:wikt:massacre|massacres]] at a school in the [[United States]], and the one with the most deaths until the [[Virginia Tech massacre]] in 2007.

==After the shooting==

==After the shooting==

After the shooting, many people wanted to know why it had happened. Many people thought that Klebold and Harris had done it because they were [[bullying|bullied]], and schools in the United States began talking about how to stop bullying. However, it is now thought that Klebold and Harris were bullies themselves.<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm 10 years later, the real story behind Columbine - USATODAY.com] {{WebCite|url=http://www.webcitation.org/677IioI03|date =2012-04-22}}</ref> Other people blamed parts of the [[media]], saying that the lyrics of bands and singers like [[Marilyn Manson]] and violent video games that the shooters played might have caused it.

After the shooting, many people wanted to know why it had happened. Many people thought that Klebold and Harris had done it because they were [[bullying|bullied]], and schools in the United States began talking about how to stop bullying. However, it is now thought that Klebold and Harris were bullies themselves.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm |title=10 years later, the real story behind Columbine - USATODAY.com |access-date=2017-08-30 |archive-date=2012-04-22 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/677IioI03?url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> Other people blamed parts of the [[media]], saying that the lyrics of bands and singers like [[Marilyn Manson (musician)|Marilyn Manson]] and violent video games that the shooters played might have caused it.

 

In 2002, filmmaker [[Michael Moore]] released a [[documentary]] movie called ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'' that was about why the shooting happened and about the role guns have in American culture. In the movie, Moore interviewed [[Marilyn Manson]].<ref>[http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_16/section_1/artc3A.html Bowling for Columbine: "I Want Them to Leave Angry"]</ref>

Many [[wikt:impromptu|impromptu]] [[memorial]]s were created after the shooting. Memorials included victims [[Rachel Scott]]'s car and John Tomlin's truck.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-06-mn-34535-story.html|title=Shrine and Its Removal Are Balms to Columbine|date=May 6, 1999|via=LA Times}}</ref>

 

In 2000, youth advocate [[Melissa Helmbrecht]] organized a remembrance event in Denver. It featured two surviving students. It was called "A Call to Hope."<ref>{{cite news |author=Trent Seibert |url=http://extras.denverpost.com/news/shot041200a.htm |title=Young leaders to rally around volunteerism |work=[[The Denver Post]] |date=April 12, 2000 |accessdate=April 20, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514003742/http://extras.denverpost.com/news/shot041200a.htm |archive-date=May 14, 2011 |url-status=live  }}</ref> The library (where most of the shooting happened) was removed and replaced with an [[atrium]]. In 2001, a new library, the HOPE memorial library, was built next to the west entrance.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/us/new-library-at-columbine-draws-praise-at-unveiling.html|title=ew Library at Columbine Draws Praise at Unveiling|date=June 10, 2001}}</ref>

 

On February 26, 2004, thousands of pieces of evidence from the shooting were shown at the Jeffco fairgrounds in [[Golden, Colorado|Golden]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/26/nation/na-columbine26|title=The Horrors of Columbine Are Laid Bare in Evidence|date=February 26, 2004|author=David Kelly}}</ref>

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