20 April 1999. The Columbine High School massacre kills 13 students and a teacher, becoming one of the most infamous school shootings in US history. (www.reddit.com)

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I grew up in the wake of columbine, as a teen in the 2000's. Weird time. Like someone on true anon said it best:

In a weird way this was the real end of America. Everyone in power punted on the chance to offer any meaningful remedy for school shootings, they eventually became normalized, and every other horrifying event that has occurred since is offered the same response that was offered to Columbine- thoughts and prayers.

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[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had been out of HS for two years when this happened.

This is what caused the HS to go to a closed campus, to hire cops instead of rent-a-cops, and to begin installing locking doors in classrooms.