No other event, not even the gut-wrenching school shootings at Sandy Hook (10%), Parkland (5%), or Uvalde (2%), which were the next most cited, respectively, came close to this level of recall, des…
A rose is left beneath a placard along a stone wall that has quotes from those affected by the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, at the Columbine Memorial at Robert F. Clement Park on April 20, 2021 in Littleton, Colorado. 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School died.
A pair of young girls comfort one another during the Memorial Service for the victims of the Columbine High School shooting. An estimated 70,000 people attended the service at the Mann Theatre on Bowles Ave. on April 25, 1999, in Littleton. Columbine catalyzed a seismic shift in how schools, communities, and law enforcement respond to the threat of mass shootings. It spurred a multi-billion-dollar school security industry and instilled a generation with the protocol to “run, hide, fight.” But our fortification of schools, unproven surveillance technologies, and “good guys with guns” have not stopped school shootings nor even slowed them down. There have been 394 school shootings since 1999.
We must never forget Columbine – the victims, the survivors, the first responders, and the community forever altered by its shadow. But only by looking forward can we turn the page on the copycat violence, confusion, and consequential policy it spawned. We’ve learned a lot about the root causes of mass shootings since Columbine. Yet, these root causes–despair, trauma, isolation, the pursuit of infamy, and the ease of obtaining firearms—persist, largely ignored, and unremedied.
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