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I remember it being THE school shooting growing up, the one that scared people across the country into developing plans and such for dealing with school intruders and taking it all much more seriously
Now, 14 dead (and the shooters) would barely make headlines for a week
Yeah it's wild how normalized school shootings have become. Like other people much smarter than me have said, if after Sandy Hook gun control didn't happen, it never will now.
three days, tops
Columbine is the third school shooting I remember making national news in my lifetime. The other two, while terrible and confusing, were not Made For TV. The media also didn't know how to cover such horror.
Columbine was prime-time ready. Kids in black trench coats, best friends who at least looked like social outcasts, taking over the whole school. Then there's a Christian martyr (Cassie Bernall), a ton of casualties and deaths. The story angles are obvious and hit hard with the pearl-clutching-do-nothing class.