Opinion: It's been 25 years since Columbine. This is what we're still getting wrong about school shootings
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— Twenty-five years ago on April 20, 1999, one teacher and 12 students were shot and killed by two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Another 21 members of the Columbine school community were injured in this shooting and countless lives devastated. That kind of mass violence — and in a school no less — was unthinkable at the time. Yet the past quarter-century has tragically and frustratingly shown that we have failed to keep schoolchildren safe. The communities of Newtown, Conn.,...
USA Today—25 years ago, the trauma of Columbine was 'seared into us.' It’s still 'an open wound'. The trauma of the massacre at Columbine High School still haunts survivors, witnesses nationwide and students who weren’t alive when it happened.
The Independent—Columbine High School survivors can’t believe that the shootings haven’t stopped 25 years later. Since 1999, the name of a Colorado high school has been tragically enshrined in the public consciousness – and has become synonymous with mass shootings. But those left reeling by the massacre at Columbine have watched in horror as mass shootings are replicated over and over again across the US, writes Sheila Flynn
CBS News—Day of Service marks 25 years since Columbine. April 20 has been declared by Gov. Jared Polis a Day of Service in Colorado a time for reflection and to give back to others.