Media Impact

On April 20, 1999, two boys headed to Columbine High School fully prepared to kill as many students and teachers as they possibly could. After many months of researching and planning how they would pull this off, the two boys acted out. Although everything didn't happen exactly as planned, the boys managed to pull of one of the most well known massacres in history, one that still haunts people today. The boys committed suicide after killing 13 people, so their motives behind this atrocious attack are not known for sure. One factor of the boys' lives that raises eyebrows is that fact that they enjoyed playing violent video games such as Doom, and watching violent movies such as Natural Born Killers. These have been thought to be some sort of motivation for the boys in what they did, or as some look at it, influenced them to be violent. And although this cannot be proven for sure, it would make sense that violence in media had some sort of influence on this attack. To read more about what happened that day, go to http://history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/columbine.htm