Tuesday Feb. 19

Today we finished blog discussion.

*Columbine High School- Dylan and Eric met while in school. The killers had journals and videos of the killing, they had 12 students and 1 teacher, 21 other wounded, then they killed themselves. They had bombs set to go off at certain times. But the bombs didn't go off. No mental illness, semi automatic guns, they watched the lunchroom for days. 

*University of Texas- Charles Whitman 25, was the shooter, night before he started a suicide note he planned on killing his wife and his mom, he wrote all of this in the letter. He was a marine.  lots of guns, went to the 27th floor of the tower then he started shooting for 96 minuets, 16 total were dead plus wife and mom, he was shot in the back of the head, he had a brain tumor and had depression.

*Virginia Tech- Shooter was Cho Seung-Hui, he had severe and anxiety , he was kind of a weird guy, he was looking for his girlfriend that broke her heart. 32 people were killed plus himself, he went to his dorm shot to people there, sent videos and pictures to NBC. Sparked big gun control move. He committed suicide after this happened. 

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