The names of these two young men--Harris 18 and Klebold 17--were on every tongue in 1999 because of the mayhem they caused in what was termed the Colubine High School massacre.
Both boys committed suicide at the end of their killing spree, which left 13 dead and 21 wounded.
The school where the spree killing took place was located in Littleton, Colorado. The attack was carried out on Adolph Hitler's birthday, and only two weeks shy of the boys' graduation.
Both boys looked quite normal, but they had somehow developed an intense hatred for many of the people around them. They got into trouble of various kinds, apparently viewing themselves as societal rejects, and experimented with bomb making.
This dreadful massacre brought painful attention to school bullying and to the violent video games so popular with American youth. Shown below are weapons used in this mass murder.
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