The 90's

The 90's were an interesting decade when it comes to the constitution.

I believe the 90's did a poor job of sticking to the preamble's belief of keeping the United States a tranquil place to live.

My Reasons

• Columbine High School Shooting - April 20th
• The 90's Gay rights Movement
• The Grunge Music Movement

Columbine High School Shooting
April 20th, 1999

Columbine

• Eric Harris-18 years old
• Dylan Klebold-17 years old
• Killed 12 students and 1 teacher and injured more than 20 students and staff
• After the spree, the two boys killed themselves at 12:00 pm
• Originally planned to bomb the school

Columbine

• Purposely chose athletes, minorities, and Christians as their victims
• Reasons for the killing spree were unproven to be true
• Journalist/Author of "Columbine", Dave Cullen gave the two boys roles in the school shooting

Columbine Aftermath

• Many schools across America enacted "zero tolerance" rules
• Columbine reopened in the fall of 1999
• Mark Manes who sold a gun and 100 rounds of ammo to Harris, was sentenced to 6 years in prison
• Philip Duran, who introduced Harris and Klebold to Manes, was also sentenced to jail
• Victims and their families filed suit against the school and police but those charges were dropped

Gay Rights Movement of the 90's

Matthew Shepard

• 22 year old university student
• Beaten and turtured
• On Oct. 6th, 1998 he was left to die somewhere near Laramie, Wyoming
• Died 6 days later in the same place from severe head damage

Matthew Shepard

• Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were arrested and charged with murder
• Murder brought national and international attention to hate crime legislation at the state and the federal levels

Gay rights movement 90's

• December 21, 1993
• Department of Defense issues a directive prohibiting U.S. Military from barring applicants from service based on their sexual orientation
• Still forbids applicants from engaging in homosexual acts or making a statement that (s)he is homosexual
• Known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Gay rights movement 90's

• September 21st, 1996
• Bill Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act into law
• Defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman
• No state is required to recognize a same-sex marriage from out of state

Grunge Music of the 90's

Grunge music

• Stems from Seattle and revolved around it's independent record label SubPop
• It's popularity had spread to California and other parts of the U.S. building strong followings and major record deals by the early 90's

Grunge Music

• Grunge Bands from the Seattle Area include:
• Alice in Chains~Blood Circus
• Gruntruck~Love Battery
• Mad Season~Malfunkshun
• Nirvana~Pearl Jam
• Screaming Trees~Soundgarden

grunge music

• Bands outside of Seattle Area
• Babes in Toyland (Minneapolis, MN)
• The Fluid (Denver, Colorado)
• Hole (LA)
• L7 (LA)
• The Nymphs (LA)
• Paw (Lawrence, Kansas)
• Pond (Portland, Oregon)
• Stone Temple Pilots (San Diego, CA)
• Toadies (Fort Worth, TX)
• Treepeople (Boise, Idaho)

Grunge Music

• Typically, grunge music is seen as a negative thing because some critics say it promotes "emo characteristics" and that it promotes dangerous acts because of either suggestive lyrics or how the music sound
• Here is a sample of Grunge Music
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJr-iFh1OZk
• (can stop at 1:27)

These three events are why I believe that the 90's did not go for the belief of domestic tranguility