#POST 12: School shootings in the USA

This website is about school shootings and more particulary about the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. It's is written and maintained by C. Shepard.And i'ts about the massacre, what happened during,before and after.The author start with this webside because she was not satisfied by what the medias were saying and she wanted to find the true in orther to write the real story.At the moment she start researching informations,facts and fight against school violence.
What I find more interesting is that she knows nothing about the victims, or the shooters but she still fighting for the truth.
As far as i'am concern i think that it is very brave to go through rumours and what the medias want you to see. Finally it help the family of the victims and all the people that are concern to know the truth and probably it can help them to move on from this broken situation.
What I also find really interesting is the variety of informations that you can find in the webside. In fact, there are lot of informations about the vicitms,the shooters(we have some informations about the life of one of them and also about his personal thoughts which is very tragic and interesting at the same time),the event.It's very complete and it makes you understand very well what happened.

A photo of Jessica Holliday along with other students of Columbine High
fleeing the school was turned into a cover for Newsweek later that same month.

Teens wait anxiously outside of Columbine, fearing for those still inside.

Teachers runing away from the school.

The memorial of the victims.

The 2 movies that best deals with the issue are : Elephant by Gus Van Sant and Zero day by Ben Coccio. First of all, Elephant is based on the point of view of someone the shooters let go before the killing starts. I find it very interesting because it can represent the survivors, those who were absent by chance.We never know what can happened in life. I'ts just about moment, about situation.  People didn't really know about the Columbine before theses films.How survivors must feel when they escape to this tragic event?  It shows the weakness and the impotence of  human being in the face of death. 

Secondly Zero day it shows the preparation of these attack and this film has a scene that was shot in the style of a security camera and shows students being shot in the library. So, it reinforces "the real", the impression to watch the Columbine High School massacre. It's a way to sensitize more people and make them feel more concern, in other to react. People could be more shocked if the movie is inspire from a true story. 

Both of this films came out around the same time and caused a lot of confusion in viewers.

The most common reasons for the recurrence shootings in the USA are because the shooters want to get back at  those who have hurt them, make fun of them or bully them.The school shooter is always a loner. It can also be because they have problems at home or mental problems. But it is first of all acording to me because they have an easy access to guns.