Columbine Massacre 12 Years Ago: Is It Just as Easy for Teens to Get Guns Now?
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2011/04/20 11:00:00
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The Columbine High School Massacre happened 12 years ago today -- but the gun control debate it sparked is far from over.
The incident took place on April 20, 1999 when two high school seniors -- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold -- started firing gunshots at students in their Colorado high school during lunch.
The images of these two teens in their trench coats and military-style boots became synonymous with teen aggression.
Fifteen people died in the Columbine massacre, including the gunmen, and it inspired a Michael Moore movie "Bowling for Columbine" and a discussion on the availability of firearms in the U.S.
Since the tragedy in Columbine, there have been numerous other shootings, including most recently Jared Loughner's attack on a political rally in Arizona and the Virginia Tech shootings of 2007.
Do you think it's just as easy now for kids to get guns as it was back in 1999?
The incident took place on April 20, 1999 when two high school seniors -- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold -- started firing gunshots at students in their Colorado high school during lunch.
The images of these two teens in their trench coats and military-style boots became synonymous with teen aggression.
Fifteen people died in the Columbine massacre, including the gunmen, and it inspired a Michael Moore movie "Bowling for Columbine" and a discussion on the availability of firearms in the U.S.
Since the tragedy in Columbine, there have been numerous other shootings, including most recently Jared Loughner's attack on a political rally in Arizona and the Virginia Tech shootings of 2007.
Do you think it's just as easy now for kids to get guns as it was back in 1999?
if you back gun control then move to a country were only the government has guns
you have no clue
"Gun registration is not enough." - Janet Reno (Attorney General) December 10th, 1993
"[the United States] can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." - President Bill Clinton, Piscataway, NJ March 1, 1993
"We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true! We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy. We're going to beat guns into submission!" - NY Representative Charles Schumer November 30, 1993
"The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security." - Louis Freeh 1993 (FBI director)
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitlers Tischegesprache Im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1942. [Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuhrer's Headquarters 1941-1942], Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaum-Verlag, Bonn, 1951)
"Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm alway...
"Gun registration is not enough." - Janet Reno (Attorney General) December 10th, 1993
"[the United States] can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." - President Bill Clinton, Piscataway, NJ March 1, 1993
"We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true! We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy. We're going to beat guns into submission!" - NY Representative Charles Schumer November 30, 1993
"The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security." - Louis Freeh 1993 (FBI director)
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitlers Tischegesprache Im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1942. [Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuhrer's Headquarters 1941-1942], Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaum-Verlag, Bonn, 1951)
"Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins." -- Former Mafia hit man turned informant Sammy "the Bull" Gravano
"...to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them..." - George Mason
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" - Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d Ed. Philadelphia, 1836.
“Today, the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said the university’s president, Charles Steger. The campus police chief said this evening that 15 people were wounded by the gunman, although there were other reports of higher numbers of injuries.
You are a loon.
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..." - Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Member of the First U.S. Senate.
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." - Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Peirce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850. 2, col. 2.
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - Mahatma Ghandi
"...to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them..." - George Mason
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" - Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d Ed. Philadelphia, 1836.