Columbine - Reflection on Violence

Columbine - Reflection on Violence

While watching a commentary, on a popular television program, I felt nauseous1 after learning of torture students and teachers endured at Columbine High School in Little Town, Colorado. It began as a typical school day in April; it ended with an afternoon of horror, which showed a child’s extreme behaviour. Teachers and students encountered hours of torture as two fellow students walked their campus halls on a shooting spree. To avoid being hit by a flying bullet, victims hid in closets and storage compartments. Patiently, police officers camped out around school grounds waiting for a right moment to enter. Many parents waited frantically, not knowing their children’s fate.

Two teenage boys, belonging to a group called “The Trench Coat Mafia,” targeted minority groups and athletes. After ending their rage, both gunmen and over a dozen students and teachers lay dead. A few days after, police officers found several explosives all around the school campus, indicating the boys intended to blow their school to pieces.

After an event of this nature we as people immediately seek to point our fingers, in efforts to find a solution for such a serious problem. All mass media seems to be first on everyone’s list to get hammered.