Columbine Whose Fault Is It

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Many things can be attributed to this massacre. This nation has many aspects contributing to the early loss of children's innocence, which in turn cause adolescents to develop earlier and which, in this case, can have grave consequences. This paper will explore how peers, the media, and access to guns, may have played a huge role in this tragedy.
Klebold's and Harris's peers played two very important and different roles in their lives. Peer rejection by the majority of the school's population was a very notable issue. The boys were social outcasts at the school and obviously had pent up rage about this fact. Research has shown that peer rejection makes the rejected children more likely to engage in criminal activity and experience mental health problems (Balk, p.285). According to Balk (1997), rejected children are not given the opportunities to fulfill many social needs and because of this they do not have social standards to compare ...

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