Columbine The tragedy at Columbine High School is something that will be
remembered and talked about for many years to come. People from across the
nation have all heard about this event. But there are still a couple questions
that people have. For instance who’s to blame? The kids alone, the parents for
how they brought the children up, or even actually the students at Columbine?
Most say that the parents are to blame, but who actually knows? In my opinion
the only two people that can actually answer this question truthfully are both
dead. Everyone wants answers. Did the kids have help? Who was it? Who sold them
the weapons and why? Why did they do this? How could they do this? I had a class
about the last question. Who could actually go into a room and commit a crime of
massacre in a school of people that you know and have grown up with? Most of our
class thought that they couldn’t ever get enough anger to do anything even
remotely as bad, but when you actually think about it, if you had no friends and
where made fun of all the time. It looked like your parents, teachers, and even
all your own piers where against you. I think anyone could snap and maybe even
do something as drastic as this (Why at Columbine High). Did the boys, Dylan
Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, have any help doing this crime. As of yet no
one has true evidence that proves they did except they did find who sold them
the weapons. Police found around thirty small bombs and one twenty-pound propane
bomb in the school, enough explosives to blow the school into almost nothing.
For this reason people believe that the boys either had to have help or they had
visited the school many times to plan this assault. No one talking though and no
proof has been found. Their not only looking for information from someone that
could point to someone that had helped they’re also looking for someone that had
known that this was going to happen, so that they may find the answers to so
many questions (The Colorado Shooting: Who Helped).
Besides many bombs the police had also found a horrible suicide note. “Your
children who have ridiculed me, who have chosen not to accept me, who have
treated me like I am not worth their time are dead. THEY ARE (expletive) DEAD. I
may have taken their lives and my own - but it was your doing. Teachers,
parents, LET THIS MASSACRE BE ON YOUR SHOULDERS UNTIL THE DAY YOU DIE.” Those
lines from the note have to be the worst thing I’ve read in my life. It’s almost
as if they are completely happy with doing this, and they think that they’re
doing for the good of the people. The letter goes on to say, “You may think the
horror ends with the bullet in my head, but you wouldn't be so lucky. All that I
can leave you with to decipher what more extensive death is to come is
‘12Skizto.’ You have until April 26th. Goodbye.” This is something that I’ve
only read in this one place ‘12Skizto’ what could it mean? So far course they
believe it had something to do with the bombs they found in the school, but who
actually knows? The way they word everything is so sad. It’s sad because just by
reading these pieces of the note you know they must have had so much hatred
towards their parents, teachers, piers, and even the parents of their piers
(Police Discover Possible Suicide Note). Another tragic event that happened out
of all this is the martyr Cassie Bernall's death. This girl stood up and said,
“There is a God, and you need to follow along God's path.” And because of that
simple statement that she said directly to the boys they shot her dead. What a
brave little girl, giving up her life in hope that maybe just maybe the boys may
stop. Unfortunately it had no effect. And now the death of Cassie Bernall will
stay with everyone as the martyr of the Littleton tragedy (A Surge of Teen
Spirit). Even at six months after the horrible tragedy more tragedy is
happening. October 23, 1999, the mother, Carla June Hochhalter, of Anne Marie
Hochhalter, one of the critically injured children from the Columbine Tragedy
shot herself, because of all the stress this has put her through. Since their
daughter was paralyzed they had to have money to keep her in the hospital, so
they had to sell their house and live in motels and such. Harriet Hall, the
psychologist in charge of counseling the Columbine victims, said that Mrs.
Hochhalter had been making progress, but that things like this don’t usually
take full effect on someone till about six months. It takes till about then to
actually realized that the person is gone.
