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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of school shooting
By COLLEEN SLEVIN DENVER©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Negative Nancy
A very interesting and well-written article. I think we all remember where we were when that particular example of the American gun disease was on our screens.
WA4TKG
Did they take any firearms training?
I certainly would have.
OssanAmerica
High capacity semi-auto pistols and rifles need to be severely regulated on both a Federal and State level. There is no legal firerms activity which requires these features. Yet they cause fatalities in great numbers.
JboneInTheZone
How so?
Yes, there are
Strangerland
Not outside of weird American "logic".
Marc Lowe
While much attention is given to tragedies involving affluent white Americans, more can be learned by analyzing similar events which occurred and are occurring around the globe with more diverse peoples. More media attention should be given to atrocities in Haiti. Africa, urban America, etc. Columbine's anniversary could be better used.
Strangerland
Interesting group of areas you seem to consider America's peers when it comes to gun violence.
Jimizo
I can’t claim to have read half of the books written on this, but surely it would be better to focus on a particular phenomenon and its own peculiarities.
I find rightwing North American podcast watchers are obsessed with the idea of diversity and try to shoehorn it in. Comically pathetic.
The very idiotic ones try comedy and post things like ‘but wait, diversity is a strength!’.
Anyway, that isn’t the case here. I see your point but I’d go back to focusing.
PTownsend
Sad there are still some gun crowd sorts claiming the tragedy at Columbine was a government plot to make gun owners look bad, completely ignoring the reality that children, someone else's) were murdered by a wack carrying a gun. Too many gun extremists have the compassion of a cobra, they had zero regard for the family and friends of those killed at Columbine, and many still feel that way after some of the many other gun massacres, yet some even claim to be religious.
Bob Pns
One of the weapons used by Dylan was completely banned 5 years prior to the shooting yet he still managed to acquire it. All of the guns they used were acquired illegally.
2020hindsights
Bob Pns
High capacity semi-auto pistols and rifles need to be severely regulated on both a Federal and State level.
Hence the need for severe regulation.
Bob Pns
What more regulation could there been done to prevent someone from getting a weapon that was already completely banned?
Hawk
Bob Pns,
Which one was banned? The TEC?
Three of the guns were purchased by a straw purchaser - an older friend - illegally, and the other by the boys themselves, also illegally, via the so-called 'gun-show loophole' where no background check is required for private gun sales. How about universal background checks, through federal and state databases?
Bob Pns
Yeah the TEC
I 100% agree on this
Hawk
Bob,
Thanks. Any more detail on the banning of the TEC? Part of the Assault Weapons Ban in 199..6(?) I understand that if a weapon was owned before that, it was exempt.