Discussions on gun politics are land mines waiting to explode. It is said that guns don't kill people, people kill people, but the easy availability of guns does surely make it much simpler for people to kill people. Simply put, the increase in the level of violence that a firearm brings cannot be compared to any other weapon. Bombs may be more lethal, but even so, handguns and firearms are more lethal at a more personal level. Needless to say, there are countless people for and against gun regulations in any given country.

Politics and politicians all over the world have been wracked by discussions over the so-called 'gun culture' in their countries. The simple question is 'to be or not to be'. Apart from the legal jargon that goes on endlessly in political circles, one question that does spring up during gun culture and gun politics in America is – 'Can the country be a safer place if there were stringent gun control rules and regulations?'  This is a frustrating question that has harried both pro-gun control as well as anti-gun control groups since and for years to come.

For every situation where stringent gun control laws have resulted in the loss of lives, there is a situation where the ease of gun ownership has resulted in the loss of too many innocent lives to ignore. Not counting situations where people have been duped or fooled into believing that their lives are in mortal danger, criminals with guns in their hands and violence in their minds have had a more success rate that the ones who did not have an easy access to guns. That brings us to that one fact that has been haunting the entire world and more so America since time incarnate – Violence in Schools.

For most people outside America, violence in schools may be a scuffle at the least and a plastered limb or broken neck at the most. Unfortunately, violence in schools in America means a lot more than that. Violence in schools in America means death, killing sprees and countless families losing their loved ones for ever in that one moment of senseless violence and complete defeat. Another surprising fact that has sprang up countless times during investigations is that the killers or as they are infamously called 'spree-killers', most of the times have been every day people with little or no criminal record to raise any suspicion that they would commit the senseless act that they did.

This is where we think about the most brutal school massacre situations on a global level – the Columbine School Massacre. April 20, 1999 was the date with two school boys wrote their names in blood in the books of history, and gave responsible people the idea as to just how
important their responsibilities were. Countless books, news articles and other media have given out the horrific details about the massacre. It was the fourth deadliest school massacre in the US of A at that time.

Facts state that the two high school killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had come up with websites and other materials which were a naked proof of their hatred towards their society in particular and the entire world in general. In fact, the duo had many a time bragged in school that they would one day kill everyone in the school. And eventually, they did.

The fact still stands that the guns were just a plan B which the duo were successful at. Countless dud bombs were found from the school and even on the dead persons of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. If they did not have a ready availability of guns, would they have cooled off the next day and returned to school and carefully defused the bombs, laughing over their stupid joke over beer twenty years later?

This begs the question whether Harris and Klebold really meant to do what they did. Would they have not done it if the means to do it – guns – were not as freely available as they were for them? Would they have forgotten their hatred, graduated, married and admitted their children in the school that they passed out from?

How Harris and Klebold got the guns is in itself interesting. The firearms in question were two shot guns and a rifle which could have been legally acquired by anyone over the age of eighteen. But that was not the case when it comes to the semi automatic TEC- D9. It was later revealed that Harris and Klebold had acquired the gun, maybe illegally, from other people who have been arrested and charged.

What still sends shivers down the spines of authorities and parents waiting for their children to come home is that Harris and Klebold had thought about the school shoot out as just a start of their violent mowdown. They had planned to continue the death dance into neighboring homes, and finally crash a hijacked plane into New York City.  

Klebold and Harris were not the only people to have an easy access to guns and kill people. One another infamous spree killer is Jeff Weise. What brings both these cases together is that all three had used the Internet as a tool to vent their anger and frustration, before actually cruising on a path of blood, destruction and death.

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