This happened my senior year of high school, had no idea it would be normalized. This is why I tried to be kind to everyone. You never know what the smallest gesture of kindness might mean to someone.
Same. I will never forget going back to school after this happened and looking around the hallways at everyone. Every school had a “trench coat mafia” back in 1999. I was just glad school was almost over but I remember that eerie feeling in the hallways like what if one of these kids just flipped like this one day. It was the first of many. Such a sad day.
Yes it happened about a month before my graduation in 99. For that month our school was on lockdown, it was more like a prison. They treated every kid that was late for class like a suspected murderer and they would have to be escorted to class by administrators. All classrooms were locked, no restroom breaks without escorts..
Crazy that this happened your senior year, the second biggest high school shooting (Parkland) happened my senior year. Crazy and sad to think how two different generations and those around us are all still affected
That's a good point, and a great takeaway coming from something so heinous and nightmarish. Reminds me of a clip talking about when you greet someone and ask 'hey, how are you?', and they say 'good', you never quite know what that person may actually be going through. Sounds corny and cliche, but people often hide their feelings, esp when it comes to mental health or life's struggles in general. Even between the closest of friends. Things that shouldn't be, but are embarrassing to wear on your sleeve. Eric harris feeling left out of fun things by the cool kids was eating him alive inside, based off what he wrote in his journal. Sometimes we all need a little reminder to be empathetic/compassionate. Sometimes things we feel we're all alone with, are things that everyone has felt at one time or another. Sometimes we all need a pep talk, other times the best thing possible is to just listen. You will never truly know when a simple gesture of kindness could determine life or death to someone, or even yourself. Guys in particular (based off s--cide rates, and a natural inclination to be less open or to seek help). These guys seemed to have diagnosable disorder(s), and treatable issues that were never addressed, but who knows, a little kindness could have potentially changed their course.
I remember anti bullying policies at my school being taken much, much more seriously after this happened. Even nationwide tv ad psa's at the time iirc.
I was in 10th grade when this happened. All of our parents were shocked and scared. It was the first of its kind. For the next 2 years of my high school experience, many kids didn't go to school on 4/20. 2 years later was Sept 11th attacks, and after I graduated we lost friends in the Iraq War. My youth was wild times.
We all were HS kids, we all know. But wow, you all had to keep going back day after day/after year…and deal with all the stress from this first/not the last shooting. And then just 2yrs later 9/11.!! Nothing can be said really, it all just had to be gone through eh. No magic words gonna fix it. The fact through it ALL is that this existence needs both sides, ALL sides of everything to EXIST, for it all to keep going! BLISS, needs LESS BLISSFUL to exist. Happy/Sad. Helpful/hurtful…. Pain, less pain, joy, bliss. Everything needs its opposite to exist, or it would not exist at all! Hot, Cold. Ahhh, just right! It ALL exists. WE, judge things good or bad. But the extremes that happen are reallvery horrendous eh! Ideas that could be talked on forever really. The WHOLE thing is so huge that it cannot be contained and resolved by a human mind! So what CAN be done is LET IT GO! It all is so huge and WE have the choice, the power to let it all go!…and to be as happy as we can be !! We all had the trauma of the recent Big did-ease thing to deal with! So many new people have learned now to question everything!! It seems for now it will continue, as the world of “all possibilities” continues to play out! Wow, are things actually “better” now? Previous generations back the children were doing drills in schools…they were doing “duck and cover”, laying on the floor in the halls in fetal positions, covering their faces to protect from (as they totally believed it) possible falling atomic bombs!!!! A wish for the best of happiness everyone and for less unhappiness. Eh.
What a horrible thing to hear as a brand new mom, likely didn't help any anxieties you had. My brother is 10 days younger than the September 11 attacks (I was almost 4) and my parents worried what kind of world we would grow up in.
I've survived gunshot wounds. You never completely heal. Even physical wounds never fully heal. For those survivors, that murderous day might never end. My heart bleeds for you. 😭
I was a senior in HS when this happened and was glued to the news story. I couldn't fathom what was happening. It's had such a profound impact on me and my youth.
I still think the police were all cowards that day and should have those kids in their minds forever. RIP to the murdered kids and stay strong to the survivors.
Not necessarily, you have to remember officers are bound by protocol and policy, they were very different in 1999 now the officers are trained and allowed to immediately engage and make entry upon arrival.
@@LinxZwoDreiVierUvalde is in Texas Columbine is in Littleton Colorado, that’s 2 different states 2 events 22 years apart, things were done differently in 1999 in comparison to 22 years later, protocols were different, you don’t have to like it but those are the facts.
@ You said "now they are trained to …“ and clearly not. Also, that’s the system they signed up to serve, and "just following orders“ has, historically, been a piss poor excuse.
@@LinxZwoDreiVier what are you trying to say? You want me to tell you that the cops in Uvalde were wrong?? Ugghhh obviously ! In 1999 they were not wrong even though their policy was obviously wrong but if you watch this video obviously cops were taking fire from out of the windows, I remember watching it live on TV. You sound like a cop hater dude, why don’t you put the blame where it belongs, which is with the people who did the evil, cops can’t save the entire world you know. It’s easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
Columbine at least had the excuse of the police department legitimately not having a protocol for something this extreme couple that with conflicting reports from inside and you have a police force dealing with something that they’ve never experienced before especially at a school Uvalde had no excuse
In Memorium of the victims of the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999: Rachel Scott (17) Daniel Rohrbough (15) William D. Sanders (47) Kyle Velasquez (16) Steven Curnow (14) Cassie Bernall (17) Isaiah Shoels (18) Matthew Kechter (16) Lauren Townsend (18) John Tomlin (16) Kelly Fleming (16) Daniel Mauser (15) and Corey DePooter (17)
@@StephenLuke I don’t really know. I never responded to this. I’ve never even seen this. Despite that I’m seeing it now and it’s a beautiful recognition to those that lost their lives.
Be kind. You never know how vulnerable someone is to seek revenge. I think of all the kids on the margins during my schooling. Not making an excuse but bullying can send certain people over the edge.
I've seen this video several times and it never gets easier. I couldn't imagine the fear in that library. The heroes was the students inside tring to save lives and the cowards on the outside.
Awful to have so much hate in you. I do think that Eric was the leader, he wanted to hurt others, but Dylan was depressed and only wanted to die. It was indeed a perfect storm. Rest in peace to the victims of this awful event 🙏
Living here in Colorado and working at the hospital waiting for the kids to come was heartbreaking. Then to do it all over again with the theater shootings was mind blowing. We have endured the club shootings and the King Soopers shootings. I doubt if there are many of us Coloradans that were not touched by one or the other tragedies. I still have my “Remember Columbine” state plate. It guts me to know that the worst has happened here. Only next to Texas have we been more violent. Yes, we still pilgrimage to the school and pay our respects at the memorial. It is a wound that will take a generation to heal. God bless those that were in the school, but I know that it hit us responders just as hard.
I was a senior in high school in '99. I went to Chatfield Senior High (Columbine's sister/rival school). After this happened, they ended up coming to our school to try and finish the year. We used to joke about guns in school but never in our wildest dreams did we ever think anyone would really do that.
Nice! What do you think about all the conspiracy theories like others shooters, the number of students killed, a drill etc? I'm class of 1999 from high school as well. I heard way too many conspiracy theories about Columbine over the years. It's laughable.
I was out of HS by couple of years when this had happened. I had the same style of trench coat they were known to wear/cliche name and once I found out, I threw mine away out of respect to the victims and their families.
yes absolutely and if people had taken the violent threats of those 2 teenagers seriously. if people had told the cops a few months ahead of time about the warning signs that these two savages had been planning they could have adequately planned to prevent this horrible tragedy
I was only a year and a half old, so I grew up as school shootings became more and more common. Now I'm a teacher. My family fears that they'll hear my school's name on the news. I fear for my students and my colleagues. I love them all so much and want them to be safe.
@artdude2823 facts. And they can say it wasn't bullying, but I grew up in those times. Bullying was extremely common. As someone who was a victim of it relentlessly, I knew the dejection that it causes.
This sort of violence happens when people allow bullying to continue in schools. Let’s see what happens when teachers and administrators start taking action against bullying by means of expulsion. It’s very important to stop a potential problem before it gets out of hand. Massacres happen when the necessary action needed is ignored.
My name is Emma. I was at school when this happened and it was on the news..I was in math class on the 4th floor of my school..hard to believe it's been 20 sumthing years
Craig Scott, Rachel Scott’s brother, was in the library on that day where most of the killings occurred. In fact, he was right next to Isaiah Shoels and Matthew Ketcher when they were both killed.
@hollybean790 I couldn't agree more I was in shock seeing that because at the time it was one of the biggest shootings at the time it could have been a lot worse thank you for responding let's just hope and pray another event like that never happens again
I was lucky to graduate Before Columbine which opened up Pandora's box on School shootings.Awful.Our kids are no longer safe in school.Anywhere in this country!😢😢😢😢
I think parents should consider homeschooling from now on I'm actually surprised schools haven't been closed down and kids just getting homeschooling cause of all this violence.
Yes they are safe. It's actually extremely small chance of getting killed in a school shooting. Like your literally almost just as likely to get struck by lightening!
@@aaronnantz2289When I was watching coverage of the tragedy at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL back in 2018 on the TV in my hospital's cafeteria; a former coworker of mine named Lauren expressed her fears over her young son starting school in a few years time. In an effort to try and be helpful in assuaging her fears; I suggested to Lauren that she consider the idea of enrolling her son in a private school. Private schools seem less vulnerable to school shootings than public schools. Also; private schools have smaller class sizes and a fairer student to teacher ratio, so the teachers are able to genuinely care about their students and the students themselves are genuinely happy.
Dave Sanders lived several hours after being shot. He could have been saved. The police and first responders failed him, who saved maybe hundreds of lives that day.
I do blame a HIGH percentage of this event on kids who BULLY other kids...and make fun of other kids. I never bullied anyone...because I knew how shitty it felt....
I remember being in grade 11 when this massacre happened. I went to school in Canada but still it was unbelievable this happened. A bunch of students, myself included discussed who would be likely to pull off a shooting like that in our school. Even the outcasts at my high school were outgoing and were included in everything and they were part of the discussion so we wondered, anyone could be capable.
I just can't even imagine what it's like to go through something like this. I'm so glad I'm out of highschool and even on college campuses be aware of anything that comes
I remember this well, was so sad, and this could have been avoided. There is a hierarchy in highschool and these boys deff were at the bottom. They had psychological issues that should have been addressed. 😢
Did not realize it was coming from the medication?? What??? It has been seriously discussed since the 1980's that antidepressants in young people are extremely dangerous & should only be prescribed by a psychiatrist & have talk therapy. Every shooter has been a young man on antidepressants.
@@brianmaitai7685 psych meds can create psychosis and dark negative thoughtsds in people, please don't discredit it. I've been there. It's a horrible road to go down. Anti-depressants are the worst
Antidepressants remove ALL feelings, not just depression. They turn you into this emotionless zombie. There's a well documented study where antidepressants actually increase suicide rates due to them removing the fear aspect of suicide. Now that they're emotions are gone it makes it much easier for them to go through with it; when before they couldn't do it. Its the exact same with shootings...
@@brianmaitai7685agree . I am always baffled at the attempts to gain sympathy for gruesome crimes. The lawyers willingly go the distance to defend the most horrific crime. It is all twisted. This was no bullying etc. this was a planned hate crime .
@@brianmaitai7685i think it's a bit of both, neither of ye are wrong. If ye look at the numbers of SSRIs being prescribed from x year when they started to be subscribed and the prevalence of shootings by young men/school shootings, then do a simple graph between the two, there is a clear correlation
One reason for this to happen imho was, that those young men were able to get their hands on guns, while they were probably considered not old enough to have a beer.
They didn’t get those guns legally though. Dylan wouldn’t have been able to legally get a gun as he was still 17. Not knocking down your point though, I get what you mean.
How did either of the parents not know their kids were sick. How did they get ammo at their age, and the weapons. How can all of that go un noticed by their parents😢😢😢😢
The little you find out from Harris’s father is that when he called police, he knew the shooter was his son. He had a notepad list of what things Eric did. He knew there was something wrong with Eric but there is nothing he could do. Post mortem psych evals believed Eric was a sociopath or psychopath.
it's also weak people who bully others god knows what that can trigger off in other people especially if they have any issues but these two are no better the there bullies
Remember it like it was last week. My school along with quite a few others across many states locked down because the so-called trench coat mafia was widespread and they thought there was a chance that would be a coordinated attack at many schools.
The same happened In Uvalde. The school footage shows the officers outside of the classroom the gunman is inside of, and they are chatting and listening to the gunshots.🤬
Don’t compare them mass and school shooting were in incredibly rare in 1999 police department were not trained for them like they are now the polices followed there training secured escape routes and wait for the swat team to arrive since that what trained for after combine police officers are trained to do the opposite
16:51 every single time I’ve ever heard a gun go off, even from a distance, I knew immediately what they were. You don’t confuse gunshots for anything else. You normally confuse other loud pops as gunshots.
@madirishgirl76 you're wrong. My son in law was at the school and friends with Dylan and Erick. They were constantly bullied by the jocks and preppy people. You weren't there. So don't act like you know what they went through.
@mamabfishin1059 I'll say what I like tough if you don't like it I had cousins who went there who were bullied by the 2 of them excuse you stop making excuses for their behaviour thy done a lot of bullying themselves
The police should have done their jibs and stopped them. They let those poor kid get murdered. The same thing happened here in Uvalde Texas. The police did nothing to save those kids. Shameful
Gaining entry 3.5hours after the attack started is unacceptable...for those wounded its an eternity, for those still alive their sitting ducks and the mental anguish for the survivor's is irrepairable..too many missed opportunities to intervene
The footage from the basement tapes conflicts with the official story. The basement tapes will never be released as they can debunk the entire massacre.
This why I hate these piggy back journalists. The police swat team entered the building 45 mins after the first shots were fired. It took a further 5hrs for them to declare the school as under control. This was due to them having to wait for the robot they sent in. After confirming their deaths, they had to search the school from top to bottom due to the IED's that were triggered in the canteen. They couldn't risk bringing crime scene investigators or EMTs into the school while the threat of more explosives still existed. It's easy to point out the polices mistakes now, because we have a clearer picture and CCTV footage, as well as student testimony that shed light on what happend that day. But on the day it all happend, the only information the police were privy to was that 2 students Dillon and Eric went on a killing spree, dressed in trench coats, and that they have triggered explosives inside the canteen. It's not as black and white to send police officers into a scene like this.
This is absolutely awful and it just goes to show by the time the police do anything everyone inside is badly injured or dead something needs to change rip to all 😢😢😢
Change did occur in police response. It is why there were criminal trials against the officers at Uvalade and Parkland because the training is that police enter right away.
It's just awful to have so much hate in you. I believe that Eric was the leader, he wanted to do the most harm and hurt others, but Dylan was depressed and he just wanted to die. Rest in peace to the victims of this awful and terrible event ❤🙏
Don’t judge the boys . Judge the arrogant egotistical students full of them selves students who thought they were better then them . Kids are mean . They need to love everyone . Y judge Erik and Dylan only ?
25:20 "The k spree INSIDE the school is about to begin.." Ummm .. hasn't it already begun?! Does the narrator have amnesia? 🤦♀️ I was in high school when this happened and it was just the beginning for more to come. Sad that this crap had became so normal that they added it to fire and tornado drills smh.
Columbine was the first of the shooting sprees in U.S before it became a frequent thing, police were trained to wait for SWAT or till theres enought to have s team to back then, i think, obviously thats changed, nowa days they dont wait for SWAT its first group of officers go in, this wasent normal back then, and i wish it wasnt normal today... but it keeps happening to this day, this year alone, perry, apalachhee, the one a few days ago.... 1 is to many.... my siblings go to school, and now im scared if they will come home or if im get a call from my mom... this has to stop! Sorry for my rant... this stuff really ticks me off......
I hate these kinds of documentaries. I haven't watch it all yet but I'm sure it just recounts what happened and doesn't look into why these two decided to commit such a crime. Back in the 80s my brother was in public high school and was repeatedly bullied. The school did nothing! My parents had meeting after meeting and school kept saying there was nothing they could do. They sent my brother and me to a private high school so I was spared being bullied, but to my brother it had a lasting effect. My parents sent him to counseling and the psychologist said my brother had no superego, no voice telling him something was right or wrong. We caught him blowing up a can of gasoline. He later stole thousands from disabled people he was assigned to manage. Today he has the same job except no control over money and his salary is only $24,000 / yr.. His wife divorced him, his children suffer from similar dysfunctions. He's an angry person, like a ticking bomb. What should society do with him?
BTW, the guys who bullied my brother ended up doing prison and / or still going around bullying people in our community. The police have had multiple run ins with them.
I agree with you. People say meds, meds meds but so many people with psych issues aren't med compliant. It's too bad that we don't have more psych treatment centers ( well managed ofc).
This happened my senior year of high school, had no idea it would be normalized. This is why I tried to be kind to everyone. You never know what the smallest gesture of kindness might mean to someone.
Same. I will never forget going back to school after this happened and looking around the hallways at everyone. Every school had a “trench coat mafia” back in 1999. I was just glad school was almost over but I remember that eerie feeling in the hallways like what if one of these kids just flipped like this one day. It was the first of many. Such a sad day.
Yes it happened about a month before my graduation in 99. For that month our school was on lockdown, it was more like a prison. They treated every kid that was late for class like a suspected murderer and they would have to be escorted to class by administrators. All classrooms were locked, no restroom breaks without escorts..
Crazy that this happened your senior year, the second biggest high school shooting (Parkland) happened my senior year. Crazy and sad to think how two different generations and those around us are all still affected
That's a good point, and a great takeaway coming from something so heinous and nightmarish.
Reminds me of a clip talking about when you greet someone and ask 'hey, how are you?', and they say 'good', you never quite know what that person may actually be going through.
Sounds corny and cliche, but people often hide their feelings, esp when it comes to mental health or life's struggles in general. Even between the closest of friends. Things that shouldn't be, but are embarrassing to wear on your sleeve. Eric harris feeling left out of fun things by the cool kids was eating him alive inside, based off what he wrote in his journal. Sometimes we all need a little reminder to be empathetic/compassionate. Sometimes things we feel we're all alone with, are things that everyone has felt at one time or another. Sometimes we all need a pep talk, other times the best thing possible is to just listen. You will never truly know when a simple gesture of kindness could determine life or death to someone, or even yourself. Guys in particular (based off s--cide rates, and a natural inclination to be less open or to seek help).
These guys seemed to have diagnosable disorder(s), and treatable issues that were never addressed, but who knows, a little kindness could have potentially changed their course.
I remember anti bullying policies at my school being taken much, much more seriously after this happened. Even nationwide tv ad psa's at the time iirc.
I was in 10th grade when this happened. All of our parents were shocked and scared. It was the first of its kind. For the next 2 years of my high school experience, many kids didn't go to school on 4/20. 2 years later was Sept 11th attacks, and after I graduated we lost friends in the Iraq War. My youth was wild times.
It must have been really traumatic for you, all that to deal with then 911. I’m English but we were all American that day.
We all were HS kids, we all know. But wow, you all had to keep going back day after day/after year…and deal with all the stress from this first/not the last shooting. And then just 2yrs later 9/11.!! Nothing can be said really, it all just had to be gone through eh. No magic words gonna fix it. The fact through it ALL is that this existence needs both sides, ALL sides of everything to EXIST, for it all to keep going! BLISS, needs LESS BLISSFUL to exist. Happy/Sad. Helpful/hurtful…. Pain, less pain, joy, bliss. Everything needs its opposite to exist, or it would not exist at all! Hot, Cold. Ahhh, just right! It ALL exists. WE, judge things good or bad. But the extremes that happen are reallvery horrendous eh! Ideas that could be talked on forever really. The WHOLE thing is so huge that it cannot be contained and resolved by a human mind! So what CAN be done is LET IT GO! It all is so huge and WE have the choice, the power to let it all go!…and to be as happy as we can be !! We all had the trauma of the recent Big did-ease thing to deal with! So many new people have learned now to question everything!! It seems for now it will continue, as the world of “all possibilities” continues to play out! Wow, are things actually “better” now? Previous generations back the children were doing drills in schools…they were doing “duck and cover”, laying on the floor in the halls in fetal positions, covering their faces to protect from (as they totally believed it) possible falling atomic bombs!!!! A wish for the best of happiness everyone and for less unhappiness. Eh.
@johnrogers9481 I'm not sure what your experience was, but I was speaking to mine. Quite a passive aggressive comment. Weird.
@@laurenrussell9869😂😂😂, that went left huh ?? 😂😂😂
@Supreme36074 didnt it tho? 🤣
I remembered watching the live news that day. I had just gave birth to my oldest and he was only 7 days old. My son is now 25 years old.
What a horrible thing to hear as a brand new mom, likely didn't help any anxieties you had. My brother is 10 days younger than the September 11 attacks (I was almost 4) and my parents worried what kind of world we would grow up in.
Time flies
I've survived gunshot wounds. You never completely heal. Even physical wounds never fully heal. For those survivors, that murderous day might never end. My heart bleeds for you. 😭
Wounds heel but scars can last forever
@@NedkaRokonokova ❤️❤️
Ptsd!😢
I was shot during my tour in Fallujah I still hold a bullet in me the scar has fade away but my pain hasn't
Im sorry
I was a senior in HS when this happened and was glued to the news story. I couldn't fathom what was happening. It's had such a profound impact on me and my youth.
Nice! You're the same age as me, 43. I'm class of 1999 from high school as well. The Columbine Massacre took us by surprise.
I graduated in 97 but same feelings
I still think the police were all cowards that day and should have those kids in their minds forever. RIP to the murdered kids and stay strong to the survivors.
Not necessarily, you have to remember officers are bound by protocol and policy, they were very different in 1999 now the officers are trained and allowed to immediately engage and make entry upon arrival.
@@josephgirardi9522 Uvalde disagrees.
@@LinxZwoDreiVierUvalde is in Texas Columbine is in Littleton Colorado, that’s 2 different states 2 events 22 years apart, things were done differently in 1999 in comparison to 22 years later, protocols were different, you don’t have to like it but those are the facts.
@ You said "now they are trained to …“ and clearly not. Also, that’s the system they signed up to serve, and "just following orders“ has, historically, been a piss poor excuse.
@@LinxZwoDreiVier what are you trying to say? You want me to tell you that the cops in Uvalde were wrong?? Ugghhh obviously ! In 1999 they were not wrong even though their policy was obviously wrong but if you watch this video obviously cops were taking fire from out of the windows, I remember watching it live on TV. You sound like a cop hater dude, why don’t you put the blame where it belongs, which is with the people who did the evil, cops can’t save the entire world you know. It’s easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
Everyone: Columbine was the worst police response ever
Uvalde: Oh yeah? Hold my piss
At the time of Columbine, the police responded properly. Uvalde police failed because they were trained for this situation.
@@KarilynM You mean "untrained"
Yup! School shootings were so rare that the police didn't know how to respond. They stayed outside because they were told to.
How is that so?
Columbine at least had the excuse of the police department legitimately not having a protocol for something this extreme couple that with conflicting reports from inside and you have a police force dealing with something that they’ve never experienced before especially at a school Uvalde had no excuse
I was home on maternity leave. My youngest daughter was 13 days old. I watched the TV news coverage all day about this. I WAS IN SHOCK!
I was only 12 at the time when this happened, I saw it on TV and was scared at what I was watching.
RIP Austin Eubanks, who passed away in 2019.
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14th victim? 😢
@@Uteria_888 Technically no, Greg Barnes committed suicide in 2000.
@@Uteria_888 Technically no, Greg Barnes, a student at that school who witnessed what happened to Dave Sanders, passed away in 2000.
In Memorium of the victims of the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999:
Rachel Scott (17)
Daniel Rohrbough (15)
William D. Sanders (47)
Kyle Velasquez (16)
Steven Curnow (14)
Cassie Bernall (17)
Isaiah Shoels (18)
Matthew Kechter (16)
Lauren Townsend (18)
John Tomlin (16)
Kelly Fleming (16)
Daniel Mauser (15)
and
Corey DePooter (17)
Forever young!
I’m
@@rebeccanorthern8996 You’re what?
@@StephenLuke I don’t really know. I never responded to this. I’ve never even seen this. Despite that I’m seeing it now and it’s a beautiful recognition to those that lost their lives.
What about the teacher
Be kind. You never know how vulnerable someone is to seek revenge. I think of all the kids on the margins during my schooling. Not making an excuse but bullying can send certain people over the edge.
They were building their own hate & prejudice of people they did what they claimed others did or acted toward them!
@@juliechase2047 I'm pretty sure this topic goes more in-depth, than what typically seen from it.
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I've seen this video several times and it never gets easier. I couldn't imagine the fear in that library. The heroes was the students inside tring to save lives and the cowards on the outside.
Awful to have so much hate in you. I do think that Eric was the leader, he wanted to hurt others, but Dylan was depressed and only wanted to die. It was indeed a perfect storm. Rest in peace to the victims of this awful event 🙏
Dylan participated so no, he wasn't a good kid.
They were both 100% equal on the plan
Living here in Colorado and working at the hospital waiting for the kids to come was heartbreaking.
Then to do it all over again with the theater shootings was mind blowing.
We have endured the club shootings and the King Soopers shootings. I doubt if there are many of us Coloradans that were not touched by one or the other tragedies.
I still have my “Remember Columbine” state plate. It guts me to know that the worst has happened here. Only next to Texas have we been more violent.
Yes, we still pilgrimage to the school and pay our respects at the memorial. It is a wound that will take a generation to heal.
God bless those that were in the school, but I know that it hit us responders just as hard.
I was a senior in high school in '99. I went to Chatfield Senior High (Columbine's sister/rival school). After this happened, they ended up coming to our school to try and finish the year. We used to joke about guns in school but never in our wildest dreams did we ever think anyone would really do that.
Nice! What do you think about all the conspiracy theories like others shooters, the number of students killed, a drill etc? I'm class of 1999 from high school as well. I heard way too many conspiracy theories about Columbine over the years. It's laughable.
@AntiMasonic93 I don't believe any of them lol
I was out of HS by couple of years when this had happened. I had the same style of trench coat they were known to wear/cliche name and once I found out, I threw mine away out of respect to the victims and their families.
Kip Kinkel from the 1998 Oregon shooting had a trench coat as well. What was up with these kids with trench coats then.
These two guys didn’t just have anger issues. Both were completely insane
And so are all of you out there who are bullying others.
@@jesperchristensen2992How is she bullying?
This tragedy could have been avoided if their mental health and issues of bullying had been taken seriously
Its not even taken seriously 25 years later. Just boys being boys.
I agree bullying is the root cause of school shootings. Stop bullying and you stop school shootings.
And yet its interesting that many students get bullied and do not plan massacres.
Eric Harris was a sick person. Other parents who had dealings with him found him scary. Some people are just broken.
yes absolutely and if people had taken the violent threats of those 2 teenagers seriously. if people had told the cops a few months ahead of time about the warning signs that these two savages had been planning they could have adequately planned to prevent this horrible tragedy
Watching this made me cry😢
I was only a year and a half old, so I grew up as school shootings became more and more common. Now I'm a teacher. My family fears that they'll hear my school's name on the news. I fear for my students and my colleagues. I love them all so much and want them to be safe.
I hope you’re keeping that thang with you & being safe, Ms.! 🥰
Bullying needs to be taken seriously.
More so mental health. Nobody is entitled to friends.
The sad part is these days, the bullys are protected and their victims are punished.
FACTS!
@artdude2823 facts. And they can say it wasn't bullying, but I grew up in those times. Bullying was extremely common. As someone who was a victim of it relentlessly, I knew the dejection that it causes.
This sort of violence happens when people allow bullying to continue in schools. Let’s see what happens when teachers and administrators start taking action against bullying by means of expulsion. It’s very important to stop a potential problem before it gets out of hand. Massacres happen when the necessary action needed is ignored.
I was in high school in the late 90s. Bullying was a BIG, BIG thing back then.
Lord. I remember this like it was yesterday. Big news in '99. People stopped anywhere there was a t.v. to watch the horror. So tragic.
100 TRILLION % LIES!
My name is Emma. I was at school when this happened and it was on the news..I was in math class on the 4th floor of my school..hard to believe it's been 20 sumthing years
25 years. 💔 HeArtbreaking.
Username says Pamela and the pic is of an older person. 🧢 🧢🧢🧢🧢
Wow, so you are graduate of Columbine. Nice!
She's not a Columbine survivor.
the police were only concerned with thier own safety ...or more could have been saved
Why should you get yourself killed? Who are you of any use to anyone once dead.
@@TS-zl7wlyou are the opposite of a hero
I’m sure this wasn’t something they had trained for. None of us know how we would do if we haven’t been in that situation.
I remember that day , April 20, 1999. I was a freshman.
I consider this the First Internet Event. Was working at Target at the time, and I came home to find out this happened.
The cops were real cowards that day. They let all of those kids die! Shame. How could they live with themselves?
Thank you very much.
Only one year old when this occurred. The death toll in a high school that day was outnumbered by Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Florida in 2018.
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Really?
Craig Scott, Rachel Scott’s brother, was in the library on that day where most of the killings occurred. In fact, he was right next to Isaiah Shoels and Matthew Ketcher when they were both killed.
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That's the official story. Others believe differently. Haha!
This was a horrible tragedy that happened I just hate that the shooter's parents have to carry on with their lives with this hanging over their heads
A very sad and awful day for many. Their parents, too.
@hollybean790 I couldn't agree more I was in shock seeing that because at the time it was one of the biggest shootings at the time it could have been a lot worse thank you for responding let's just hope and pray another event like that never happens again
I was lucky to graduate Before Columbine which opened up Pandora's box on School shootings.Awful.Our kids are no longer safe in school.Anywhere in this country!😢😢😢😢
It is so horrible. My youngest daughter is a senior and has a horrible fear daily that a school shooting will happen.
I think parents should consider homeschooling from now on I'm actually surprised schools haven't been closed down and kids just getting homeschooling cause of all this violence.
Yes they are safe. It's actually extremely small chance of getting killed in a school shooting. Like your literally almost just as likely to get struck by lightening!
@@aaronnantz2289When I was watching coverage of the tragedy at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL back in 2018 on the TV in my hospital's cafeteria; a former coworker of mine named Lauren expressed her fears over her young son starting school in a few years time. In an effort to try and be helpful in assuaging her fears; I suggested to Lauren that she consider the idea of enrolling her son in a private school. Private schools seem less vulnerable to school shootings than public schools. Also; private schools have smaller class sizes and a fairer student to teacher ratio, so the teachers are able to genuinely care about their students and the students themselves are genuinely happy.
3 and 1/2 hours before the police do something. JESUS CHRIST! Give up your badges, You police are useless!
Yaaa UNREAL , FREAKIN Cops waiting on NAVY seals ?
Assholes is what comes to mind.
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Swat teams entered columbine approximately 45 mins after the shootings started. It took a further 5hrs before they declared the scene as under control
Thank you.
I graduated a year before this. This was truly horrific and shocking. Now, in 2024, it is part of our lives. Heartbreaking. We need so many changes.
officers trained to move in early???? what happened then at Uvalde?
That was my first thought too.
Uvalde was a complete mess. Such a failure.
Uvalde was an absolute disaster, the police should be ashamed of themselves.
Dave Sanders lived several hours after being shot. He could have been saved. The police and first responders failed him, who saved maybe hundreds of lives that day.
I do blame a HIGH percentage of this event on kids who BULLY other kids...and make fun of other kids. I never bullied anyone...because I knew how shitty it felt....
I still can't believe how long it took for the police to get in
The way the police responded to this whole mess was downright disappointing
Really? Were you a superb cop in 99?
@@colleenpennington5706 I don't have to be a cop to make an observation
@@EBizz85 Neither do I apparently
Unimaginable 😢 can’t begin to imagine what they all went through. 💔
I'm a teacher and think about this at least once every day when I'm teaching. How can I keep them safe? Which of my students would be capable of this?
probably a student who is quiet and gets bullied
R.I.P to all of the victims.
Hearing this now sounds eerily like some aspects of Uvalde
Grow up
It does, with the failure of the cops.
@@TexasTornado66 failure of the parents pea brain
@@TexasTornado66 you’re clueless
I remember being in grade 11 when this massacre happened. I went to school in Canada but still it was unbelievable this happened. A bunch of students, myself included discussed who would be likely to pull off a shooting like that in our school. Even the outcasts at my high school were outgoing and were included in everything and they were part of the discussion so we wondered, anyone could be capable.
I just can't even imagine what it's like to go through something like this. I'm so glad I'm out of highschool and even on college campuses be aware of anything that comes
Why on earth didnt police go to the library first??? They could hear the shootings??
Unacceptable
I remember this well, was so sad, and this could have been avoided. There is a hierarchy in highschool and these boys deff were at the bottom. They had psychological issues that should have been addressed. 😢
Did not realize it was coming from the medication?? What??? It has been seriously discussed since the 1980's that antidepressants in young people are extremely dangerous & should only be prescribed by a psychiatrist & have talk therapy. Every shooter has been a young man on antidepressants.
I don't think we should blame medications-more like lack of personal responsibility.
@@brianmaitai7685 psych meds can create psychosis and dark negative thoughtsds in people, please don't discredit it. I've been there. It's a horrible road to go down. Anti-depressants are the worst
Antidepressants remove ALL feelings, not just depression. They turn you into this emotionless zombie.
There's a well documented study where antidepressants actually increase suicide rates due to them removing the fear aspect of suicide. Now that they're emotions are gone it makes it much easier for them to go through with it; when before they couldn't do it. Its the exact same with shootings...
@@brianmaitai7685agree . I am always baffled at the attempts to gain sympathy for gruesome crimes. The lawyers willingly go the distance to defend the most horrific crime. It is all twisted. This was no bullying etc. this was a planned hate crime .
@@brianmaitai7685i think it's a bit of both, neither of ye are wrong. If ye look at the numbers of SSRIs being prescribed from x year when they started to be subscribed and the prevalence of shootings by young men/school shootings, then do a simple graph between the two, there is a clear correlation
Rest In Peace to all those lost on that terrible day.
One reason for this to happen imho was, that those young men were able to get their hands on guns, while they were probably considered not old enough to have a beer.
They didn’t get those guns legally though. Dylan wouldn’t have been able to legally get a gun as he was still 17. Not knocking down your point though, I get what you mean.
I remember coming home from school and seeing the guy falling from the window. It was truly terrifying going to school the next day.
How did either of the parents not know their kids were sick. How did they get ammo at their age, and the weapons. How can all of that go un noticed by their parents😢😢😢😢
Read Dylan’s mother’s book and you will find out. Or watch her Ted Talk.
The little you find out from Harris’s father is that when he called police, he knew the shooter was his son. He had a notepad list of what things Eric did. He knew there was something wrong with Eric but there is nothing he could do. Post mortem psych evals believed Eric was a sociopath or psychopath.
An older friend, (female), bought at least 1 of the guns for them.
@@marymackenzie4854Three of them, actually.
Yup! Sue Klebold explained everything in her book.
It is sick the police stayed outside
They didn't intervene because the shooters were white.
RIP to Isaiah.
Rip all the victims that day but yes, his death is particularly heinous.
Only weak people prey on unarmed people. These two were the epitome of weak.
it's also weak people who bully others god knows what that can trigger off in other people especially if they have any issues but these two are no better the there bullies
People rarely have the same attitude towards the bullies
****HOW DO THOSE COPS SLEEP AT NIGHT ***AND LIVE WITH THEMSELVES,..***?????????????????????????.
A horrifying story thank you for this
100 TRILLION % LIES!
I remember this day . Saddest day in America started bad trend of school shootings 😢
heart wrenching. ☹️
I subscribed to your channel
Remember it like it was last week. My school along with quite a few others across many states locked down because the so-called trench coat mafia was widespread and they thought there was a chance that would be a coordinated attack at many schools.
The same happened In Uvalde. The school footage shows the officers outside of the classroom the gunman is inside of, and they are chatting and listening to the gunshots.🤬
Don’t compare them mass and school shooting were in incredibly rare in 1999 police department were not trained for them like they are now the polices followed there training secured escape routes and wait for the swat team to arrive since that what trained for after combine police officers are trained to do the opposite
16:51 every single time I’ve ever heard a gun go off, even from a distance, I knew immediately what they were. You don’t confuse gunshots for anything else. You normally confuse other loud pops as gunshots.
Don’t bully people
This is just horrific.
Zoloft..lovox all that stuff makes you crazy insane with rage. It messed me up so bad..gosh..worst 3 months of my life!
God have mercy 🙏
Bullying makes you snap
@lisachlastawa5105 they weren't bullied they did bullying to others that was proven
@@madirishgirl76 Yes they were.
@madirishgirl76 you're wrong. My son in law was at the school and friends with Dylan and Erick. They were constantly bullied by the jocks and preppy people. You weren't there. So don't act like you know what they went through.
@mamabfishin1059 I'll say what I like tough if you don't like it I had cousins who went there who were bullied by the 2 of them excuse you stop making excuses for their behaviour thy done a lot of bullying themselves
@@madirishgirl76 people who are bullied bully others
Weird that this is on a channel called True Heroes.
Good grief
@@muddydog6605 Hey, I didn't name the channel
Well, Dave Sanders was the real hero that day. Craig Scott also led Kacey out of the library although he wasn’t mentioned.
I was in 8th grade when this happened. Sad that’s it so normal to us now.
The police should have done their jibs and stopped them. They let those poor kid get murdered. The same thing happened here in Uvalde Texas. The police did nothing to save those kids. Shameful
I meant jobs
I think the police are getting paid to not save lives anymore that's why their so useless at thier jobs.
I remember this documentary finally they put it back up.
Gaining entry 3.5hours after the attack started is unacceptable...for those wounded its an eternity, for those still alive their sitting ducks and the mental anguish for the survivor's is irrepairable..too many missed opportunities to intervene
Just unbelievable that all these people knew all these signs and did nothing maybe they should be held accountable as well so sad
I can’t remember whose dad it was but he was really mad that the police didn’t release the basement tapes
The footage from the basement tapes conflicts with the official story. The basement tapes will never be released as they can debunk the entire massacre.
@@AntiMasonic93what do you mean "debunk"?
I was 19 when this happened, shook me hard. Still does, and as a parent now it's scary sending our kids to school!
I've remembered that that tragic news when I was a 3rd Grade Student at Avondale Elementary School in Birmingham, Alabama.
This happened my Freshman year in high-school, I remember this being absolutely shocking and terrifying!
If they would have only listened to Randy Brown...he warned everyone possible
The Police should be ashamed for letting those victims bleed to death for 3 plus hours. What a disgrace.
This why I hate these piggy back journalists. The police swat team entered the building 45 mins after the first shots were fired. It took a further 5hrs for them to declare the school as under control. This was due to them having to wait for the robot they sent in. After confirming their deaths, they had to search the school from top to bottom due to the IED's that were triggered in the canteen. They couldn't risk bringing crime scene investigators or EMTs into the school while the threat of more explosives still existed. It's easy to point out the polices mistakes now, because we have a clearer picture and CCTV footage, as well as student testimony that shed light on what happend that day. But on the day it all happend, the only information the police were privy to was that 2 students Dillon and Eric went on a killing spree, dressed in trench coats, and that they have triggered explosives inside the canteen. It's not as black and white to send police officers into a scene like this.
This is absolutely awful and it just goes to show by the time the police do anything everyone inside is badly injured or dead something needs to change rip to all 😢😢😢
Change starts with us.
Change did occur in police response. It is why there were criminal trials against the officers at Uvalade and Parkland because the training is that police enter right away.
@@KarilynM change didn't happen much if school shootings are still happening. Just saying
this was a harrowing watch.
Cops seemed like they were being cowards, nobody tried to breach the school? Why wouldnt they have confronted them head on?
You took ✨️PRAYER 😇OUT OF SCHOOLS 🏫 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
“You”? Who and what are you talking about?
America that's who.
Exactly!
Taking prayer out of schools isn't the problem. Are you aware the first school shooting in the US was in the mid 1800s?
This is so sad
Wow .. just wow beyond horrible .. the police took way too long entering that school 😢
It's just awful to have so much hate in you. I believe that Eric was the leader, he wanted to do the most harm and hurt others, but Dylan was depressed and he just wanted to die. Rest in peace to the victims of this awful and terrible event ❤🙏
Yeah, yeah. That is the official story.
Maybe you should stop listening to Dave Cullen and Sue Klebold!
Don't overcomplicate & mystify cases like these. There IS a single cause for this. That is psycopathy out of control.
The sad part is that this now a common every day occurrence in America and brushed under the rug with hopes and prayers.
These two boys were pure evil.
They werent.. they have been judged bullied by others so many times ..and didnt have a help..
Don’t judge the boys . Judge the arrogant egotistical students full of them selves students who thought they were better then them . Kids are mean . They need to love everyone . Y judge Erik and Dylan only ?
@@LionDog-b5bbecause the other kids didn’t shoot up a school, not saying they weren’t bullied but bombing a school isn’t a rational response
@thescorpiondroid_ true it may not be rational, but every effect has a cause, and they're the ones that caused this.
@2024s_truth-speaker or maybe they were bullied BECAUSE the other kids could already tell they were deranged psychos 🤷♀️
I went to middle school just down the road from columbine when this happened they loaded us into school busses cause they didn't know what to do
Police 👮♂️ drop the ball on this they all should be prosecuted.
25:20 "The k spree INSIDE the school is about to begin.."
Ummm .. hasn't it already begun?! Does the narrator have amnesia? 🤦♀️
I was in high school when this happened and it was just the beginning for more to come. Sad that this crap had became so normal that they added it to fire and tornado drills smh.
Columbine was the first of the shooting sprees in U.S before it became a frequent thing, police were trained to wait for SWAT or till theres enought to have s team to back then, i think, obviously thats changed, nowa days they dont wait for SWAT its first group of officers go in, this wasent normal back then, and i wish it wasnt normal today... but it keeps happening to this day, this year alone, perry, apalachhee, the one a few days ago.... 1 is to many.... my siblings go to school, and now im scared if they will come home or if im get a call from my mom... this has to stop!
Sorry for my rant... this stuff really ticks me off......
If the police would have done thier job when the two were getting in trouble this never would of happened
It was very Interesting this case is so particular, It’s a tragedy that nothing and no one could have avoided, Hate is devastating
Well, i mean, if their ahitty parents had done better by their kids, maybe this wouldn't have happened.
@@daniellebenfield95Maybe it's a mix of lots of things
I hate these kinds of documentaries. I haven't watch it all yet but I'm sure it just recounts what happened and doesn't look into why these two decided to commit such a crime.
Back in the 80s my brother was in public high school and was repeatedly bullied. The school did nothing! My parents had meeting after meeting and school kept saying there was nothing they could do. They sent my brother and me to a private high school so I was spared being bullied, but to my brother it had a lasting effect. My parents sent him to counseling and the psychologist said my brother had no superego, no voice telling him something was right or wrong. We caught him blowing up a can of gasoline. He later stole thousands from disabled people he was assigned to manage. Today he has the same job except no control over money and his salary is only $24,000 / yr.. His wife divorced him, his children suffer from similar dysfunctions. He's an angry person, like a ticking bomb. What should society do with him?
BTW, the guys who bullied my brother ended up doing prison and / or still going around bullying people in our community. The police have had multiple run ins with them.
I agree with you. People say meds, meds meds but so many people with psych issues aren't med compliant. It's too bad that we don't have more psych treatment centers ( well managed ofc).
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It started such a sad trend. RIP 😢😢😢
46:03 This guy.. my thoughts EXACTLY
It’s getting worse where you are not safe in school anymore 😮
I was 18 going on 19 when this happened April 20 1999