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So, with the 10 year anniversary of the Columbine shootings coming up in a few days, and today being the two year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, I decided to draw that of all times for me to draw something, it should should be now. So to further educate myself on Columbine, since its closest to home (I myself have lived in Colorado since grade school, and lived in a similarly calm, quiet town known as Woodland Park). The only information I previously had came from the news about ten years back, and that's it. Today, I read a few news reports, updated since forever ago, and then proceeded to watch Bowling For Columbine (please, no comments or opinions on Michael Moore) in segments on Youtube.
Well, now what's this in bolded caps in the related videos side bar, just begging to catch(and succeeding) my already focused attention? Columbine: for Education!
My natural assumption is that its probably an interview, or several, analyzing the shooters' psychological issues at the time of shootings. Now, I'm a stickler for psychological do-dillies and whatnots. What an interesting field to be in involved in!
No. No no no no no. Its not anything like what I had come even close to thinking. Its a track of different surveillance camers around the school, following the events in specific order.
Now, they aren't the videos that the different news channel showed, over and over again. They show the students...dying. I didn't know that at first. Hey, its just another surveillance camera, different angle. The students start running and panicking, and the shooters come into view; there's a kid that gets shot; he lags behind everyone else, as it switches to another camera, then another camera in the library. He sits down at a table, and dies.
I closed all my open windows, shut off my computer, grabbed Baby Girl, sat on my bed, and cried somewhere between 30 minutes to an hour. Yes, I knew it was bad. Two kids shot and killed several people. Horrible thing. Terrible thing. Its one thing to know something happened; its a completely different thing to see it happen.
When the incident first happened, I had no idea until my mom got home from work, grabbed me, hugged me, and cried. Told me what had happened, and life went on. We talked about it in school the next day, went over a few emergency plans should something like that ever happen in out neck of the woods, and it was never brought up again.
No, I won't give you the link to such a horrid vison. I don't see any educational value in watching children die, and I'm pretty sure none of you would want to see it anyway.
I suppose I don't really think that this journal will be worth reading to anyone and I doubt half the people in the US will give a shit on April 20 about Columbine; most people will be lighting up bowls and bongs and such, getting high and forgetting anything ever happened. I can't helped but be sickened by the thought, but to each his own. This is more or less a journal expressing my sadness about something that happened when I was at an age where I couldn't feel empathy, about a group of unfortunate inviduals I've never met, caught in the middle of the horrible wrath of people.
Anyway, I think I'm going to go take a long, long shower.
See you April 20.
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