Guess who just made Janet’s List.
10 years already?
Man I was in High School when it happened (11th grade)
* BOOKS
* APRIL 18, 2009
A Nightmare Re-Examined
Debunking myths and finding the real story behind a school massacre
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were not the first young men to walk into an American high school on a mission of terror and murder, but their rampage 10 years ago was such that the school’s name alone still evokes harrowing memories. At the time, the Columbine massacre was the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history; 12 students and a teacher were killed, and Harris and Klebold committed suicide. It remains the bloodiest attack at any high school — and almost certainly is beset with more misconceptions than any other shooting, too.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124001474857430973.html
Columbine transformed police tactics; cops now trained to bring down the shooter right away
P. SOLOMON BANDA | Associated Press Writer
12:30 PM EDT, April 18, 2009
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — The first officers on the scene had never trained for what they found at Columbine High School: No hostages. No demands. Just killing.
In the hours that followed, the nation watched in horror as the standard police procedure for dealing with shooting rampages in the U.S. proved tragically, heartbreakingly flawed on April 20, 1999.
Two officers exchanged fire with one of the teenage gunmen just outside the school door, then stopped — as they had been trained to do — to wait for a SWAT team. During the 45 minutes it took for the SWAT team to assemble and go in, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot 10 of the 13 people they killed that day.
The killers committed suicide around the time the makeshift SWAT team finally entered. But the SWAT officers took several hours more to secure the place, moving methodically from room by room. One of the wounded, teacher Dave Sanders, slowly bled to death.
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http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-columbine-active-shooter,0,3891340.story