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Regina Rhode was a student at both Columbine High and Virginia Tech during both shootings

how many school shootings since columbine?

A freshman girl at Columbine escaped from the cafeteria when the shooting began. Eight years later she was a graduate student at Virginia Tech during the shooting there.

Who died at columbine shooting?

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  1. The basement tapes, which were videotapes the columbine shooters made before the shooting explaining how and why they did the shootings were destroyed in 2011 by police.

  2. Despite the fact that many blamed Marilyn Manson for the Columbine shooting, there's no information that indicates that the shooters even listened to his music.

  3. During the Columbine shooting SWAT teams remained outside of the school while Klebold and Harris roamed the halls murdering students, they didn't enter until 3 hours after the two took their own lives.

  4. Trenchcoats were banned in many US schools in reaction to the Columbine shooting, despite the two shooters not being in the trenchcoat mafia, not wearing them during the shooting, solely because of a photograph shared by the media of them posing with the yearbook-approved group.

  5. A woman named Regina Rohde survived the Columbine shootings in 1999 and studied at Virginia Tech during the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.

  6. Marilyn Manson was thought to be the reason behind the Columbine shootings. His response is amazing.

  7. Both KMFDM and Rammstein had to speak about the columbine shooting in 1999, because parents thought that they were the direct cause of it.

  8. The 3rd week of April is historically brutal. The Titanic sinking, the Waco siege, the Oklahoma City/Boston Marathon Bombings, the shootings at Virginia Tech and Columbine and the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion all occurred between April 12th and April 20th

  9. A game called "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!" created by Danny Ledonne to "create a video game about Columbine by his own experience being bullied and the effect the shooting had on his life" and "critique of how traditional media sensationalized the shooting via video games"

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Why did the columbine shooting happen?

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Since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, there have been 31 school shootings in the United States and only 14 in the rest of the world combined.

There exists a fandom for the perpetrators of the Columbine High School Massacre. Three members of the fandom planned a shooting in Halifax, Nova Scotia. - source

Eric Harris (columbine shooter) made doom mods/maps before the shooting(DL on the website) - source

There was a black comedy film about the Columbine Massacre released in 1999, just 6 months after the actual shooting occurred.

The father of Daniel Rohrbough, a student who died in the Columbine High School shootings, only found out about his sons death when he saw a photo of his body in the newspaper the next morning. - source

When was the columbine shooting?

The father of Daniel Rohrbough, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings, only learned of his sons death after seeing a photo of his body in a newspaper the next morning.

How many mass shootings since columbine?

Dylan Klebold could have been the leading force and first mind behind the Columbine Shooting

5 school shootings that shook the world; Columbine, sandy hook, dunblane, Virginia tech, texas

The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper", a box set of Alice Cooper albums, happened to be released on the day of the Columbine shooting. One of the shooters also had a quote from an Alice Cooper song in his AOL member profile.

There were NO anti-bullying laws in the US until 1999, shortly after the shooting at Columbine High School.

Sandy Hook Elementary was completely torn down and rebuilt after the shooting that occurred there, and now Columbine High School is considering the same in an effort to curb 'macabre curiosity' and avoid any future violent incidents

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A Sheriff's Office detective, had drafted an affidavit for a search warrant of one of the Columbine shooter's residence a year before the shootings, based on his previous investigation of Harris's website and activities, but it was never used.

A year before the Columbine school shooting, Eric Harris wrote a paper "Guns in School" outlining cheap and easy access to guns as to why it's a widespread problem, and how easy it is to bring guns to school.

Marylin Manson purposively never did any interviews when he was getting blamed for the Columbine shooting because he would be contributing to giving the shooters what they wanted: media attention.

Brenda Spencer is considered the mother of schoolyard shootings like Columbine and Newton. At 16 and using a .22 rifle her father had given her as a Christmas present she started shooting, wounding 8 and killing 2. When asked why she said "I hate Mondays" prompting the Boomtown Rats hit song.

The Boston Marathon (2013), Virginia Tech Shootings (2007), Columbine Shootings (1999), Oklahoma City bombing (1995), and the Branch Davidian siege (1993) have all occurred in the third week of April.

How long did the columbine shooting last?

A woman named Regina Rhode survived the Columbine shooting then later survived the Virginia Tech shooting.

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