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: The Columbine Effect and Mass School Shootings – Crime Traveller
The Columbine Effect and Mass School Shootings
The Columbine High School mass shooting on 20 April 1999 signified a terrifying change in mass violence and the use of guns in schools, to the extent that this phenomenon has been named the Columbine Effect. Thirteen people were killed on that day with twenty-four wounded at the hands of two teenage boys who had planned the attack for months, and who at the end of their rampage took their own lives. S ince Columbine in 1999, there has been an increasing trend of mass shootings, particularly across America. The Gun Violence Archive report there have been 124 mass shooting incidents this year alone, with 23 of those taking place on school grounds, according to a CNN report last month. With the overwhelming number of these shootings being carried out by young adult males, understanding why teens and young adults are taking such extreme actions within schools is the key to implementing policies and strategies to try and prevent such tragedies from happening again. “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.