At this same time there was a bomb set off three miles away from the campus to be used as a diversion by the two to draw the attention of the local authorities away from them. ... At 11:27 the two gunmen throw pipe bombs down a stair well into the cafeteria. ... Other reasons include Randy and Judy Brown filing a report with the Jefferson County Sheriffs office in March 1998 alleging Harris had threatened to kill there son, Brooks, and had written of pipe bombs and mass murder on the internet. ... The authorities had tips such as to the gunmen bragging about their collection of pipe bombs a...

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Klebold and Harris were armed with a sawed off double barrel shotgun, a TEC 9 semiautomatic, a sawed off pump shotgun, a 9mm semiautomatic rifle, a propane tank, and more than 30 homemade pipe bombs. ... Over thirty pipe bombs were handmade by Harris and Klebold for the day of the killing, which was the same day as Adolph Hitler's birthday. ... A neighbor of Eric Harris reported that he heard the two smashing glass in the garage, which police confirmed as the shrapnel used in the bombs. ... As for the parents of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, a police search of Harris&#...

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Dylan and Eric planted two twenty pound propane bombs, which were set to go off at 11:17, which is when most students were in the cafeteria for lunch time (Zero Hour). At first, Eric threw a pipe bomb, but the pipe bomb didn't do much damage. When they noticed there were no results from tossing the pipe bomb, they waited for their propane bombs to detonate. When the propane bombs failed to explode, they began using guns to kill students. ... Eric began shooting in the hallways while Dylan went to the cafeteria to see why the bombs failed to ignite. ...

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To start, there's little evidence of a link between video games and aggressive youth. While the video game industry was exploding between 1994 and 2000, juvenile violent crime arrests (ages 15-17) dropped by 44 percent and young adult violent crime arrests (ages 18-24) dropped by 24 percent, accordi...

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" Actually, this was wrong and the event didn't even involve guns, it involved bombs. ... The killers came into the school carrying only four guns, but also had over 30 homemade bombs. They intended to kill most of their victims with two propone tank explosives and more than 30 pipe bombs, but failed to detonate them before the police closed in (Kleck). ...

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