03-21-2005, 05:45 PM
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Easy Rider
Location: Moscow on the Ohio
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You aren't the only one comparing this to Columbine etc...
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The Independent
There were scenes of confusion in the area surrounding the school yesterday in the aftermath of the shooting, according to local residents. The incident is the latest in a growing number of fatal school shootings to blight the US. Among the most infamous of American high school massacres took place at Columbine High School in the spring of 1999.
Two teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, walked into the school and killed 12 students and one teacher before turning the gun on themselves.
The rise in school shootings has in part been attributed to exposure to violence in media and films, and in the case of the Columbine massacre, violent video games, which was a favourite of the two killers.
Locally, the shooting follows the 12 March killings of seven congregants at a church service near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which ended when the gunman killed himself. In 2003, a student at Rocori High School in central Minnesota allegedly gunned down two classmates. He is awaiting trial.
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