Title: The Columbine Effect and Mass School Shootings – Crime Traveller
Headings: The Columbine Effect and Mass School Shootings
The Columbine Effect and Mass School Shootings
The Columbine Shooting
The Columbine Effect
The ‘Contagious’ Nature of School And Mass Killings
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Content: “In a study of active-shooter incidents, FBI officials said there were 160 cases from 2000 through 2013, with the numbers growing from an average of 6.4 incidents in the first seven years to 16.4 in the last seven years. Seventy percent of the shooters attacked in schools or workplaces, and 60% of the shootings happened so fast that they were over before the police arrived. In 40% of the cases, at least three people were killed, not counting the shooter.” School rampage shootings are not just taking place in America. In Canada, Sweden, Bosnia, Australia, Argentina, Germany, and Finland, entering a school armed with weapons and opening fire on innocent students and employees has become a deathly method of expression for some troubled individuals. Worryingly it appears often these incidents are imitations of previous rampage school shootings, where other individuals have been keen to make their name through death and devastation. In May 2013 in Oregon, 17-year-old Grant Acord hid a cache of explosives in his bedroom and was planning an attack on his high school where he wanted to make a ‘ more successful version ’ of the Columbine massacre. Caught before he could carry out such an attack he was charged with aggravated attempted murder. In March 2014, 18-year-old Natalie Carpenter and 19-year-old Peter Thulin planned a shooting at Danbury High School with Peter Thulin reportedly being ‘ obsessed ’ with the Columbine shootings. The list continues, 17-year-old David LaDue in Waseca, Minnesota, plotted to shoot his family and as many students at his school as possible before shooting himself.