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  School massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A school massacre is an incident of attempted mass murder involving at least one actual death that occurs at a school.
In the worst school massacre in United States history, the Bath School disaster, the perpetrator was a member of the school board.
The Red Lake High School massacre in 2005 (Red Lake, Minnesota) was a notable exception, copying the element of a gunman in a fl trench coat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/School_massacre   (3878 words)

  
 Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is considered to be the deadliest school shooting, and the second deadliest attack on a school in United States history after the Bath School disaster.
Several of the victims who were believed to have been killed for their religious beliefs became a source of inspiration to others, notably Christians, and led some to lament the decline of religion in public education and society in general.
Unlike most other school shootings, the fact that both shooters committed suicide made this one particularly haunting, as answers would be slow in coming, and there would be no arrests or trial through which the victims could vent their outrage.
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 Columbine High School massacre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Columbine High School massacre occurred on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, United States, when two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, executed a planned shooting rampage that coincided with Adolf Hitler's 110th birthday, killing 12 other students and a teacher before committing suicide.
The pair had an elaborate plan cooked up for not only the school shooting, but also a massacre in the neighborhood and, if they were unable to escape out of the United States, a planned hijacking of an airplane which the boys would then crash into New York City.
In response to concerns over the causes of Columbine and other school massacres, many schools later instituted new anti-bully policies as well as so-called "zero tolerance" approaches to weapons and threatening behavior.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/c/co/columbine_high_school_massacre_1.html   (1621 words)

  
 The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral ... American Berserk
Columbine High School appeared to be, at least in the view of its administrators and the county school board, such a lovely place for young people to grow up and learn.
Harris and Klebold manufactured dozens of pipe bombs, stashed explosives in the school kitchen, studied the layout and traffic pattern to insure the largest number of victims, and chose Hitler's birthday as the date for the attack, in the course of nearly a year of preparation.
Neither parents nor high school guidance counselors are equipped to deal with the societal dysfunction that found such devastating expression in the rampage of Klebold and Harris.
www.wsws.org /articles/1999/apr1999/colo-a27.shtml   (1634 words)

  
 REFLECTIONS ON THE COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL MASSACRE
In this high-profile wave of suburban school violence, all of the killers were white as were the victims, with the exception of Isaiah Shoels, and all of the schools were in middle to upper middle class suburban communities.
Yet nearly as many children are killed by guns every day as were murdered at Columbine High School on April 20, and more than half of these victims are Black; and these deaths occur with barely an acknowledgement.
The public discourse on solutions spans the range from greater security measures, including school uniforms, metal detectors at school entrances, more police patrols, and even arming teachers to greater psychological measures, such as strengthening children and families, and helping parents learn how to be more effectively involved in their children's lives.
www.drronaldlevant.com /columbine.html   (1405 words)

  
 CNN.com - Report: More than 200 dead after troops storm school - Sep 3, 2004
BESLAN, Russia (CNN) -- The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over, an emergency official said late Friday, but more than 200 people have died.
Reports said as many as 1,200 hostages might have been inside the school and that 70 percent of them were children.
Russian forces blasted holes in a building of the school to create passages through which hostages could escape and soldiers could enter.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/03/russia.school   (935 words)

  
 CNN - Hundreds interviewed in school massacre probe - April 23, 1999
LITTLETON, Colorado (CNN) -- Investigators trying to determine if other people were involved in the Columbine High School massacre or in efforts to booby-trap the school have interviewed hundreds of people and may be helped by video from a security camera, authorities said Friday.
Schools have until the end of this month to apply for a portion of the $17 million available for school crime prevention programs.
Next to Columbine High School, in Clement Park, a Sunday afternoon memorial service is planned for the one teacher and 12 students gunned down before their two murderous classmates turned their guns on themselves.
edition.cnn.com /US/9904/23/school.shooting.03   (1161 words)

  
 SignOn San Diego Metro -- School massacre spawns lawsuits
At least 18 lawsuits are in the works as a result of the April 20 high school bloodbath, with just about everyone a potential defendant -- gun makers, the shooters' parents, the school district and the Sheriff's Department.
The parents of Isaiah Shoels, the only fl student killed in the massacre, are suing the Harrises, the Klebolds and two men charged with helping the teens get the guns used in the attack.
Other cases might claim that school security was inadequate or that administrators did not do enough to prevent the shootings.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/19991020-37-schoolma.html   (679 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Al-Qaida link to school massacre?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After clearing of mines and booby traps planted by the terrorists, the devastated school building was opened today for the relatives to pay homage to their loved ones, who died there in the three-day long siege.
Russian TV channels showed many parents and relatives of the hostages placing flowers and open plastic water bottles on what used to be floor the school gym, where 1,184 children and adults were kept in hot and stuffy atmosphere without water, forcing many to drink their own urine to quench their thirst.
The Christian relief organization Barnabas Fund is appealing for assistance for the victims of the brutal terrorist attack on a school in Christian-majority North Ossetia.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40316   (476 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Ferris Bueller detained for high-school massacre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
But in the current hysteria over school shootings, the FBI and school administrators think Bueller -- the campy main character of the popular '80s movie -- would be an excellent candidate for detainment and questioning by teachers and principals.
In response to school shooting incidents, like last week's episode at Santana High School in Santee, Calif., or in 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Co., government and school officials are engaging in dangerous profiling and zero-tolerance policies that won't stop school violence.
It's "a multi-pronged plan to assess violent threats, suggesting that a student's personality, as well as family, school and social dynamics, must be analyzed by school administrators, teachers and counselors," the FBI told The Washington Post.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22030   (999 words)

  
 bit-tech.net | School massacre averted through MySpace
Five students were arrested on Thursday after officials discovered plots to repeat a Columbine style massacre in their school after a threatening message was posted by one of the boys on myspace.com.
Early interviews with the suspects has unveiled that their intention was to perform the attack on Thursday during the lunch hour wearing fl trench coats, what would have been a copycat scenario to the Columbine massacre.
The sheriff, in an attempt to explain the actions of the boys described them as being the subject of name calling at school and that their likely targets were popular students.
www.bit-tech.net /news/2006/04/21/massacre_averted_myspace   (372 words)

  
 Salon News | After Columbine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The massacre, only the latest in a litany of school tragedies, has reignited the long-simmering gun-control debate.
As reporters swarm on the first day of school, students will try to "take back" their high school and put the massacre behind them.
In the wake of the Littleton massacre, the NRA holds its convention in Denver, less than 20 miles away from Columbine High School.
www.salon.com /news/special/littleton   (1222 words)

  
 Germany Mourns School Massacre - CBS News
However, during a mass at the end, there was a prayer for the family as well as one urging politicians not to exploit the tragedy.
On Thursday, in their first public statement since the massacre, Steinhaeuser's father Guenter, mother Christel and older brother Peter said in an open letter they had never seen the hate that led him to kill teachers and school mates.
Richard Roth reports on the mass killing by a student in a German high school that has left seventeen dead and a community shocked.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/04/29/world/main507476.shtml   (740 words)

  
 Violence of School Massacre Mystifies Germany (washingtonpost.com)
Germany is in a state of collective distress and confusion following the Erfurt massacre, which was apparently triggered by Steinhaeuser's expulsion from the school for repeatedly forging doctors' notes so he could skip class.
Steinhaeuser killed 11 teachers -- one-quarter of the school's faculty -- two students, a deputy principal, a school secretary and one of the first police officers to respond to the call.
One boy who hunkered down in the room later found a bullet lodged in his glasses case in the backpack he was wearing, students said.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A60947-2002Apr27¬Found=true   (1185 words)

  
 Minn. shooter claimed Nazi leanings - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
Jim Mone / AP Alicia Neadeau, left, who was in the school at the time of the shootings, leans her head on her mother, Angela Isham, as they talked with reporters Tuesday, in Red Lake, Minn.
It was the nation’s worst school shooting since the Columbine massacre in 1999 that killed 13 people.
High school principal Chris Dunshee said Weise “would not be what I would call an habitual troublemaker,” and that he wasn’t aware of a lot of teasing.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7259823   (1015 words)

  
 Columbine Massacre and the  Killers
Eric Harris was from New York, he transferred two yrs before the massacre to Colorado.
In this episode, the Jewish community had another Leopold and Loeb on their hands, but they cleverly arrange for Michael Moore to seize the opportunity and build a case for gun control.
Klebold and Harris made videos, and kept diaries, describing their plans for the massacre, and the sheriff refuses to release them, because of a possible anti-Semitic connections.
judicial-inc.biz /columbine_killers.htm   (956 words)

  
 CNN.com - Chechen 'claims Beslan attack' - Sep 17, 2004
Basayev claimed Russian special forces had a plan to storm the school from the beginning of the two-day siege.
The Russian government has said it didn't want to storm the school but had no choice after gunfire and explosions erupted on the third day of the siege.
School No. 1 remains closed and has been turned into a makeshift memorial.
edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/17/russia.beslan   (700 words)

  
 Was Russian School Massacre Preview Of Things To Come? - FreeConservatives
The tragic siege of the school in Russia has come to an end, but its horror will continue to reverberate for weeks and maybe even years to come.
Since the attack on the train in Spain is believed to have been a rehearsal for a future election season attack upon the U.S,, this new tactic of targeting school children doesn’t bode well for civilized nations.
Having to pick between unspeakable tragedies, too bad such a jarring lesson couldn’t be taught during one of those antiwar protest rallies instead of snuffing out the lives of innocent children who’ve yet to take any kind of position whatsoever in regards to current world conflicts.
freeconservatives.com /vb/showthread.php?t=14538   (817 words)

  
 CNN.com - Beslan school start called off - Sep 14, 2004
Footage taken by hostage takers inside the school gym.
On September 1, a group of 32 terrorists stormed the school in Beslan, taking some 1,200 hostages in a 48-hour siege that ended with the deaths of at least 335 hostages, mostly children.
Authorities said the hostages were killed the morning of September 3 when a standoff between Russian troops and the hostage-takers came to a bloody end, with terrorists setting off bombs in the gymnasium where most of the hostages were held and shooting those who tried to flee.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/14/russia.schools   (717 words)

  
 Larrt Pratt -- Lesson from Beslan School Massacre
Blame is deserved for the immoral policy of civilian disarmament that left a school unprotected.
Otherwise, when a group of Islamist fascists attacks a school in the United States, we will join the Russians in mourning the needless deaths of defenseless schoolyard victims.
After that, their schools have been protected not only by guards, but by armed adults (staff and even parents) as well.
www.newswithviews.com /Pratt/larry39.htm   (859 words)

  
 Donklephant » Blog Archive » School Massacre Foiled In Kansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In two of the suspects’ school lockers, authorities found documents about firearms and references to Armageddon, he said.
3 Responses to “School Massacre Foiled In Kansas”;
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that school killings are, probably without exception, a perverted way of “making a mark on the world.” Normal people typically dream of somehow influencing the world in some dramatic way, leaving a legacy and all that.
donklephant.com /2006/04/21/school-massacre-foiled-in-kansas   (628 words)

  
 School massacre averted
White would not comment on a report that the attack planned for Friday at South High School was similar to the one by two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., last April.
Authorities said they did not know why the students planned to attack on Friday, but noted that the school's homecoming was to have been that day.
The four students were each charged with two counts of inciting to violence and one count each of false alarm, aggravated menacing/ethnic intimidation and inducing panic.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/10/30/loc_school_massacre.html   (359 words)

  
 Calm Before The Storm The Littleton School Massacre
As the police scoured the ground floor looking for bombs, victims and the persons responsible for the carnage, Harris and Klebold were continuing their "mission" on the second floor, hunting down any stray students who were hiding in classrooms.
All of the six district hospitals had been put on alert as soon as news of the shooting had been reported by the school's security guard at 11.35.
Terrified parents flocked to the school, watching helplessly as students ran from the building, hoping to catch a glimpse of their sons and daughters.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial4/littleton   (1235 words)

  
 South Russia School Massacre: Who Is Responsible? --RW/OR ONLINE
The first fact that no one can deny is that the massive killing started when Russian troops stormed the school.
According to Le Monde, "Many people in Beslan blame the forces of order and accuse them of provoking the massacre." The authorities had announced that the children's lives were the most important thing and that they had no plans to stage an assault that could endanger them, and then they did exactly that.
After the massacre, French President Chirac's "solidarity with the Russian people" (really with Putin) contrasted sharply with his pointed rebukes to the U.S. for acting similarly in Iraq.
rwor.org /a/1253/wtw_chechnya_russia_school_massacre.htm   (1585 words)

  
 US police thwart planned school massacre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The teens were planning to set off explosives at New Bedford High School and open fire on their 3,300 classmates as they fled, Richard Spirlet from the New Bedford police told the Boston Herald.
Police were tipped off when a school janitor came across a letter on the school floor on November 20th warning of "an event" involving explosives that would take place at school on "a Monday," according to the Herald.
When I was in high school in the early 1950's a friend and I made our own fl powder from sulphur and potassium nitrate we bought at the drug store, plus some powdered charcoal briquettes.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/577872/posts   (2562 words)

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