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On April 20, 1999, in the moderately sized town of

Littleton, Colorado, at approximately 11:20 a.m., two young

men, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, stormed into

Columbine High School. No more than twenty minutes later, 15

people were dead, including the two of them, and another

twenty-three wounded (Gibbs 28-29). Knowing that the duo are

teenagers, and probably played many violent video games and

watched hundreds of violent shows, people immediately began to

blame the media, and the violence that these young men had

been exposed to by it. But is it the media that is to blame

for all these deaths? Is it violent movies, television shows,

music, and video games that made these two, and other killers

like them, do what they did? In this paper I plan to discuss

the happenings at Columbine and the recent similar assaults

that have occurred on schools, but more specifically I plan to

concluded what caused these kids to do what they did, with a

focus on media violence as the primary reason. As I begin

this paper I don’t personally believe that media violence is

to blame for all these shootings, I may not know why the kids

did what they did, but I can’t see them killing classmates

because of a movie they saw, a song they listened to, a show

they watched, or a video game they played. Through this paper

I plan to either further my belief of this, or possibly prove

otherwise and change my views.

The recent explosion in media coverage of Columbine made

it seem like it was a random event, which we’ve never seen the

likes of before, but many crimes like this have happened

before. Since February of 1996, there has...