How did America change from the shooting?
Ever since the event at Columbine high school, schools to this day and families have learned valuable life long lessons. Schools started strongly implemented a lock down system for if an intruder or an emergency is occuring in the building. We also have learned emotional lessons from the shooting. Authors James Garbarino and Ellen deLara of On the Anniversary of Columbine:Ten Lessons Learned and Forgotten, express some lessons and issues that have been brought up from the shooting. "Lesson #3: The toxic elements of popular culture - violent television, vicious videos, degrading music, and violence-desensitizing video games-are on the ascendancy. With the proportion of kids troubled enough to need professional mental health services doubling from 10% in the early 1970s to 20% today, there is no shortage of kids vulnerable to this poisonous culture. Add to this the availability of weapons, and it is a lethal combination. The average teenager reports that he could get a gun if he needed one, and with about half the households in the country harboring a gun there is little reason to doubt what kids say on this score." (On the Anniversary...). James and Ellen bring up that one of the things that is influencing our youth to do harm is the culture we live in of offensive and explicit entertainment. If we decrease the main culprit of violence in teens, then maybe less school shootings as severe as this one would occue. James Garbarino, PhD is Co-Director of the Family Life Development Center and Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and author of Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them. Ellen deLara, PhD is a family therapist and post-doctoral fellow at the Family Life Development Center whose doctoral dissertation dealt with "Adolescents' Perceptions of Safety at School and Their Solutions for Enhancing Safety and Reducing School Violence." (NY:The Free Press, 1999).
Another lesson that has been learned is from the Columbine shooting that is stated in The Four Most Important Lessons of Columbine, an article writted by Dave Cullen. It is that when people are told that someone is going to do some type of harm to a school, they quickly alert authority. "We have taken the principle of leakage to excess. The belief that any unkind word may signal mortal danger caused school districts to impose zero-tolerance policies. All threats, physical and verbal, are taken seriously and treated severely." (The Four Most....).
Another lesson that has been learned is from the Columbine shooting that is stated in The Four Most Important Lessons of Columbine, an article writted by Dave Cullen. It is that when people are told that someone is going to do some type of harm to a school, they quickly alert authority. "We have taken the principle of leakage to excess. The belief that any unkind word may signal mortal danger caused school districts to impose zero-tolerance policies. All threats, physical and verbal, are taken seriously and treated severely." (The Four Most....).