he Columbine High School massacre (often known simply as Columbine) was a school shooting which occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County within the American State of Colorado. In the school shooting, two senior students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered a total of 12 students and one teacher. They also injured 21 further students, with three other people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide.
The Columbine High School massacre is the fifth-deadliest mass murder committed upon a school campus in United States history; after the 1927Bath School disaster, the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting and the 1966 University of Texas massacre, and remains the deadliest for an American high school.
The massacre sparked debate over gun control laws, the availability of firearms within the United States and gun violence involving youths. Much discussion also centered on the nature of high school cliques, subcultures and bullying, in addition to the influence of violent movies and video games in American society. The shooting resulted in an increased emphasis on school security, and a moral panic aimed at goth culture, social outcasts,gun culture, the use of pharmaceutical anti-depressants by teenagers, teenage Internet use[1] and violent video games.[2][3]
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