Columbines are distinctive for their five-petaled flowers that have long, backward-extending spurs as pouchlike extensions of the petals, which contain nectar.The species and its several hybrids, which are known for their nodding flowers with short incurved spurs, are cultivated widely in North America.
Five years ago today, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School.The second conclusion is that the massacre was inexplicable: We can never understand what drove them to such horrific violence.But the FBI and its team of psychiatrists and psychologists have reached an entirely different conclusion.They believe they know why Harris and Klebold killed, and their explanation is both more reassuring and more troubling than our misguided conclusions.The first steps to understanding Columbine, they say, are to forget the popular narrative about the jocks, Goths, and Trenchcoat Mafia—click here to read more about Columbine’s myths—and to abandon the core idea that Columbine was simply a school shooting.After those bombs went off, they planned to gun down fleeing survivors.Fuselier and Ochberg say that if you want to understand “the killers,” quit asking what drove them.Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were radically different individuals, with vastly different motives and opposite mental conditions.Harris was not merely a troubled kid, the psychiatrists say, he was a psychopath.Harris opened his private journal with the sentence, “I hate the f—ing world.” And when the media studied Harris, they focused on his hatred—hatred that supposedly led him to revenge.“YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!?…“YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!?…“YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!?People who use the same word over and over again!STUPID PEOPLE!!!Why must so many people be so stupid!!?… YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!?It may look like hate, but “It’s more about demeaning other people,” says Hare.“I lie a lot,” Eric wrote to his journal.Fuselier was finally convinced of his diagnosis when he read Harris’ response to being punished after being caught breaking into a van.Because psychopaths are guided by such a different thought process than non-psychopathic humans, we tend to find their behavior inexplicable.None of his victims means anything to the psychopath.He recognizes other people only as means to obtain what he desires.The truly hard-core psychopath doesn’t quite comprehend emotions like love or hate or fear, because he has never experienced them directly.“Because of their inability to appreciate the feelings of others, some psychopaths are capable of behavior that normal people find not only horrific but baffling,” Hare writes.The diagnosis transformed their understanding of the partnership.Usually psychopathic killers crave the stimulation of violence.Klebold, they agree, would never have pulled off Columbine without Harris.He might have gotten caught for some petty crime, gotten help in the process, and conceivably could have gone on to live a normal life.
Heston’s mental capacity at the time does not excuse the NRA’s inability and unwillingness to take some responsibility for the epidemic and senseless gun violence in this country.Salz attempts to attack me but his letter fails to address the issue of how and why are there so many innocent people who continue to be victims of deliberate and unprovoked gun violence in this country.
A healthy, established columbine flower (Aquilegia x hybrida) needs regular pruning year-round to keep it looking good and blooming beautifully.According to Colorado State University Extension, columbine flowers will only live for three to five years within U.S.
There are differing reports: some say Harris and Klebold were very unpopular students and frequent targets of bullying, while others say they were not near the bottom of the school's social hierarchy and each had many friends.Harris and Klebold left behind several journal writings and home videos, foreshadowing the massacre and explaining their actions, with what they hoped to achieve.The FBI concluded that Harris was a psychopath, who exhibited a lack of empathy, narcissistic traits and unconstrained aggression.Klebold, however, was concluded to be an angry depressive, who showed low self-esteem, anxiousness and a vengeful attitude toward individuals who he believed had mistreated him.Harris and Klebold have become pop culture icons, with the pair often portrayed, referenced and seen in film, television, video games, music and books.Michigan pastor William Stone lived across the street from the Harris family while they were located in Oscoda.During his tenure at Stafford Middle School, Harris played Little League Baseball, regularly went to birthday parties and was "part of the crowd."."[10] The Harris family finally settled back in Colorado the next year when Wayne retired from the military."When I left (his friends) I felt alone, lost and even agitated that I had spent so much time with them and now I have to go because of something I can't stop.[18] From all accounts, he had many friends and was left forward and mid-field on the Columbine soccer team for his freshman and sophomore year.According to one of his teammates, Josh Swanson, he said Harris was a "solid" soccer player, who enjoyed the sport a lot.Klebold was soon diagnosed with pyloric stenosis, a condition in which the opening between the stomach and small intestines thickens, causing severe vomiting during the first few months of life.According to reports, Klebold was exceptionally bright as a young child, although he appeared somewhat sheltered in elementary school.Both Harris and Klebold worked together as cooks at a Blackjack Pizza, a mile south from Columbine High School.[34][37] Classmates also related that Harris was fascinated by war, and wrote out violent fantasies about killing people he didn't like.Much of the information on Harris and Klebold's friendship is unknown, on their interactions and conversations, aside from the Basement Tapes, of which only transcripts have been released.Harris and Klebold met at Ken Caryl Middle School during their seventh grade year.Over time, they became increasingly close, hanging out by often going out bowling, carpooling and playing the video game Doom over a private server they connected their personal computers to.A rumor eventually started that Harris and Klebold were gay and romantically involved, due to the time the pair spent together.[42] Judy Brown believed Harris was more emotionally dependent on Klebold, who was more liked by the broader student population.[52] Klebold attended the high school prom three days before the shootings with a classmate named Robyn Anderson.Harris and Klebold linked their personal computers on a network and played video games over the Internet.Harris had a web presence under the handle "REB" (short for Rebel, a nod to the nickname of Columbine High's sports teams) and other online aliases, including "Rebldomakr", "Rebdoomer", and "Rebdomine".Harris had various websites that hosted Doom and Quake files, as well as team information for those with whom he gamed online.On January 30, 1998, Harris and Klebold broke into a locked van to steal computers and other electronic equipment.They both left good impressions on juvenile officers, who offered to expunge their criminal records if they agreed to attend a diversionary program which included community service and psychiatric treatment.The boys' probation officer discharged them from the program a few months ahead of schedule for good behavior.Of Harris, it was remarked that he was "a very bright individual who is likely to succeed in life", while Klebold was said to be intelligent, but "needs to understand that hard work is part of fulfilling a dream.[56] In the letter, Harris expressed regret about his actions; however, in one of his journal entries dated April 12, he wrote: "Isn't america supposed to be the land of the free?[62] After illegally acquiring the weapons, Klebold sawed off his Savage 311-D 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun, shortening the overall length to approximately 23 inches (580 mm).In violation of federal law, Russell failed to keep records of the sale, yet he determined that the purchaser of the gun was twenty-one years of age or older.The bombs used by the pair varied and were crudely made from carbon dioxide canisters, galvanized pipe, and metal propane bottles.The weekend before the shootings, Harris and Klebold had purchased propane tanks and other supplies from a hardware store for a few hundred dollars.Several residents of the area claimed to have heard glass breaking and buzzing sounds from the Harris family's garage, which later was concluded to indicate they were constructing pipe bombs.More complex bombs, such as the one that detonated on the corner of South Wadsworth Boulevard and Ken Caryl Avenue, had timers.The two largest bombs built were found in the school cafeteria and were made from small propane tanks.[11] It was estimated that if any of the bombs placed in the cafeteria had detonated properly, the blast could have caused extensive structural damage to the school and would have resulted in hundreds of casualties.At 11:19 am, he heard the first gunshots after he had walked some distance away from the school, and informed the police via a neighbor's cell phone.By that time, Klebold had already arrived at the school in a separate car, and the two boys left two gym bags, each containing a 20-pound propane bomb, inside the cafeteria.At noon, this would be followed by bombs set up in the pair's cars detonating, killing first responders and other personnel.[70] When these devices failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold launched a shooting attack against their classmates and teachers.[71][72] Harris was responsible for eight of the thirteen confirmed deaths (Rachel Scott, Daniel Rohrbough,[73] teacher Dave Sanders, Steve Curnow, Cassie Bernall, Isaiah Shoels, Kelly Fleming, and Daniel Mauser), while Klebold was responsible for the remaining five (Kyle Velasquez, Matthew Kechter, Lauren Townsend, John Tomlin, and Corey DePooter).[77] It is believed they came back to the library to watch their car bombs detonate, which had been set up to explode at noon.Between three and six minutes later, they walked to the bookshelves near a table where Patrick Ireland lay badly wounded and coming in and out of consciousness.Student Lisa Kreutz, injured in the earlier library attack, was also in the room, unable to move.Harris sat down with his back to a bookshelf and fired his shotgun through the roof of his mouth; Klebold went down on his knees and shot himself in the left temple with his TEC-9.Just before shooting himself, Klebold lit a Molotov cocktail on a nearby table, underneath which Ireland was lying, which caused the tabletop to momentarily catch fire.Klebold penned a rough outline of plans to follow on April 20, and another slightly different one in a journal found in Harris's bedroom.[85] In one entry on his computer, Harris referenced the Oklahoma City bombing, and they mentioned their wish to outdo it by causing the most deaths in US history.Harris and Klebold were both avid fans of KMFDM, an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko.They fancied themselves devotees of the Gothic subculture, even though they thrilled to the violence denounced by much of that fantasy world.Some people, such as Robyn Anderson, who knew the perpetrators, stated that the pair were not obsessed with Nazism nor did they worship or admire Hitler in any way.In his journal, Harris mentioned his admiration of what he imagined to be natural selection, and wrote that he would like to put everyone in a super Doom game and see to it that the weak die and the strong live.[58] On the day of the massacre, Harris wore a white T-shirt with the words "Natural selection" printed in black.At the end of Harris' last journal entry, he wrote: "I hate you people for leaving me out of so many fun things.[98] "People surrounded them in the commons and squirted ketchup packets all over them, laughing at them, calling them faggots," Brooks Brown says."[45] In his book, No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine, Brown wrote that Harris was born with mild chest indent.I caught the tail end of one really horrible incident, and I know Dylan told his mother that it was the worst day of his life.".Harris began keeping a journal in April 1998, a short time after the pair was convicted of breaking into a van, for which each received ten months of juvenile intervention counseling and community service in January 1998.Though some friends of Harris suggested that he had stopped taking the drug beforehand,[99] the autopsy reports showed low therapeutic or normal (not toxic or lethal) blood-levels of Luvox (fluvoxamine) in his system, which would be around 0.0031–0.0087 mg/ml,[100] at the time of death.[101] After the shootings, opponents of contemporary psychiatry like Peter Breggin[102] claimed that the psychiatric medications prescribed to Harris after his conviction may have exacerbated his aggressiveness.[104] For the rest of his writings, Klebold often wrote about his view that he and Harris were "god-like" and more highly evolved than every other human being, but his secret journal records the aforementioned self-loathing and suicidal intentions.[49] It was speculated that revenge for the arrest was a possible motive for the attack, and that the pair planned on having a massive gun battle with police during the shooting.Harris and Klebold reportedly discussed their motives for the attacks in these videos and gave instructions in bomb making.Police cite the reason for withholding these tapes as an effort to prevent them from becoming "call-to-arms" and "how-to" videos that could inspire copycat killers.", to which he replied, "I wouldn't say a single word to them—I would listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did," referring to people ignoring red flags that rose from Harris and Klebold prior to the shooting.[109] According to Supervisory Special Agent Dwayne Fuselier, the FBI's lead Columbine investigator and a clinical psychologist, Harris exhibited a pattern of grandiosity, contempt, and lack of empathy or remorse, distinctive traits of psychopaths that Harris concealed through deception.According to psychologist Peter Langman, Klebold displayed signs of schizotypal personality disorder – he struck many people as odd due to his shy nature, appeared to have had disturbed thought processes and constantly misused language in unusual ways as evidenced by his journal.He was also convinced that others hated him and felt like he was being conspired against, even though according to many reports, Klebold was loved by his family and friends.[114] She spoke about the Columbine High School massacre publicly for the first time in an essay that appeared in the October 2009 issue of O: The Oprah Magazine."[115] In Andrew Solomon's 2012 book Far from the Tree, she acknowledged that on the day of the massacre, when she discovered that Klebold was one of the shooters, she prayed he would kill himself.[117][118] It was co-written by Laura Tucker and included an introduction by National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon.ITV describes the legacy of Harris and Klebold as deadly, as they have inspired several instances of mass killings in the United States.[123] Author of Columbine, Dave Cullen, called Harris and Klebold the fathers of the movement for disenfranchised youth.[128] According to psychiatrist E.
The Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, occurred when two teens went on a shooting spree, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others, before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide.By approximately 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded more than 20 other people.The teens then went back outside to their cars to wait for the bombs to go off.Victims of the Columbine Shooting.However, it later was determined the question was not posed to Bernall but to another student who already had been wounded by a gunshot.Columbine Shooting Investigation.Subsequent investigations determined Harris and Klebold chose their victims randomly, and the two teens originally had intended to bomb their school, potentially killing hundreds of people.Columbine Massacre Aftermath.
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On a weekend in July, butterflies fluttered around alpine wildflowers near Hope as people hiked past patches of red and yellow western columbine and brightly colored dwarf fireweed.For the latter, check out things like bee balms, columbines, lupines, foxgloves, hollyhocks, cleomes, impatiens and petunias.Or try native woodland wildflowers such as perennial lobelia, mayapple, columbine, thalictrum, amsonia, blood root, Solomon seal, and phlox.These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'columbine.'.
“A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions – so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long in effect.”.The flowers have a wide range of colors varying from muted pastels to bright reds, purples, and bi-colors.Rated for Zones 3 to 9 on the USDA plant Hardiness scale, they are adaptable and will do well in most areas of the United States.When planting Aquilegia in your garden, search for spots that are sunny in the morning and lightly shaded in the afternoon.The columbine plant flourishes in moist, fertile soil that doesn’t dry out quickly, or show puddles after the rains.Another notable feature of red columbine is that the blossoms of this variety are “nodding blossoms.” This means that the flower blooms facing downward rather than upward or outward, and the spurs point up.Commonly referred to as Mckana Giant, A.
Michael Moore opens a bank account so that he can get what item instead of interest?Men in Michigan who blew up a federal office building.James Nichols was arrested in connection with what bombing?Does James Nichols believe that nuclear weapons should be restricted?What organization held a major rally in Denver 10 days after the shooting?Pro gun rally of national rifle organization.How did Matt Stone and Trey Parker choose to respond to life in Littleton?Be different and chose to turn it not into courage but cartoon called South Park.Expelling/arresting students for all kinds of reasons, having metal detectors in schools, dress code and feature change can lead to court.Marilyn Manson, Satan, Music, Movies.He isn’t afraid to share his type of music, his way of presenting himself (face).What class were the boys enrolled in the morning before they killed at Columbine?Who conditions people in the United States to believe that their communities are dangerous?What does the former TV producer of Cops say sells in the media?How many gun murders were there in Sarnia, Canada, in the past three years?Canadians don’t watch as much movies, video games, poverty, and few guns.How long did it take the news crews to show up in Flint, Michigan, to cover the youngest school shooting?How did the Welfare to Work program impact Tamarla Owens, the mother of the boy who shot the little girl, Kayla?What does Michael Moore take Richard and Mark to do at K-Mart headquarters?What do Mark, Richard and Michael convince K-Mart to do about selling ammunition in their stores?Because of how Mark and Richard are the actual kids who are in suffering from those bullets they sold out of K-Mart.Whom does Michael Moore visit at his house in Hollywood?We as teens in our generation are missing out on so much on what this country is showing and giving.
(CNN) Here is some background information about the deaths of 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999.
That's how the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School -- where two young men killed 13 people -- shaped the way law enforcement respond to active shooter incidents such as Wednesday's deadly rampage in Parkland, Florida.SWAT teams entered the school 47 minutes after the gunfire erupted.In Parkland, authorities say Nikolas Cruz, 19, fatally shot 17 people at his former school before blending in with the students and staff rushing out of the school building.More than half of mass shooting incidents are still in progress when officers arrive on the scene, with 75% requiring law enforcement to confront the shooter before the threat ends, Katherine Schweit, a former senior FBI official, wrote in a 2013 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin article.JUST WATCHED Student: I heard shot that killed teacher Replay More Videos ...
Five years ago today, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School.
For the 1927 labor violence, see Columbine Mine massacreThe Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting and attempted bombing that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States.
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The perennial columbine (Aquilegia) blooms from mid-spring to early summer.