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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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[–] 34 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    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.

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