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I Went To Columbine And Knew The Shooters. Here's What I Struggle With 25 Years Later.

"The shame of Columbine’s notoriety and the guilt of knowing killers meant that I hid my past. I stayed mostly silent about my experience for years."

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

school shooting and the 90s. in fact, there had been about there have been half a dozen in the two years leading up to it. oh, yeah. i remember pearl the scipy there was paducah, kentucky. i remember covering all of those and then columbine. what happened? >> which was which was the worst. i mean, we'd never seen a death count that high, 13 people and it played out on live tv. we saw kids jumping out of windows and carried out on stretchers. column. i'm really changed the way that we respond to school shootings. so the police response was deeply criticized because it took hours to clear and secure the school a teacher bled out and died in the meantime, they simply weren't prepared for anything on this scale. but today, nearly every school has active shooter drills starting in kindergarten. armed security staff everything, ideas around your neck, visitor check-ins that all started after columbine. that's why the response to uvalde was so grigio is because we should have known better after columbine yeah, because i mean,

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these mass shooters are not strangers. these could be someone you know, could be someone planning a serious event. and the only way that we can stop these is if we recognise the warning signs and we do something about it. i think we can't ignore the fact that these are our friends, can't ignore the fact that these are ourfriends, neighbours, partners, our friends, neighbours, partners, children ourfriends, neighbours, partners, children and we have to recognise that people who we know are capable of doing this. that is why i've decided that i needed to share the fact that i knew them. i had no idea that they were planning this. but i think we all need to recognise that we have a part in creating a safer world. , :, :, , we have a part in creating a safer world. , . ., , ., we have a part in creating a safer world. , . . , . , ., we have a part in creating a safer world. , . . , ., , ., ., world. krista hanley, a survivor of the columbine _ world. krista hanley, a survivor of the columbine shooting _ world. krista hanley, a survivor of the columbine shooting and - the columbine shooting and co—founder of we're safer together i'm a personal safety organisation, thank you very much for sharing your experiences with us today. since columbine, gun violence in the united states has become increasingly severe —

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The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart

19 gun related deaths at schools. so, in your view, what has changed since columbine, and what still needs to change? >> i think it is important to remember that columbine was kind of a wake-up moment for a particular kind of problem that intersected with semiautomatic weapons, i mean it was a shooting that happened in a suburban area and white children were the victims as well as other people and so it really brought a question of gun violence home to a lot of people. and i just remember that moment as being like this moment where we are going to turn the course. this is not going to stand. we had come together as a nation. we had done and assault weapons ban a couple decades before. we had come together to arrest other types of public health emergencies, cigarettes and drunk driving and asbestos. people felt like we have hit bottom and this is the moment where we come together. i will say that many important

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with me very well and all of us are still highly affected by this every day. i know other survivors that were in shootings that took place before columbine and they are still affected by her, even people who are 50 years after their shootings. this kind of trauma stays with you forever. i don't think that people realise it. i pick it's important for everyone to know that. it's not easy or simple to get over it trauma that affects you this deeply. and we really need to do whatever we can to help other children in the world have to go through this. what help other children in the world have to go through this. what goes throu . h have to go through this. what goes through your _ have to go through this. what goes through your mind _ have to go through this. what goes through your mind when _ have to go through this. what goes through your mind when you - have to go through this. what goes through your mind when you say i through your mind when you say television coverage of other school shootings, whether it's you baldy or sandy hook, does it take you back to that place, what also your mind? the that place, what also your mind? iie: subsequent that place, what also your mind? tie: subsequent shootings that place, what also your mind? ti9: subsequent shootings have been devastating especially sylvia can

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The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart

things happened after columbine. it was the beginning of really the modern gun safety movement. so all the groups that we have now, all the remarkable efforts that we have now, but unfortunately, it was very far from the bottom. we have seen many more guns and many more shootings. in a way, we feel further from resolution even then we did after the shooting. >> we just showed pictures of the 12 students and the one teacher who were killed on that day 25 years ago today. and we were just showing the picture again right now. but you know, your book takes a deep dive into the 2018 waffle house shooting and how these mass shooters reveal a lot about the issues on race and mental health that we continue to face in our country. can you expand on that? >> my book really takes a deep dive into that 2018 waffle house shooting. it was a shooting where a naked white shooter went into a waffle house in a part of

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both in schools and in wider communities. according to data collected by the washington post, there have been more than 400 school shootings since 1999 — exposing more than 370 thousand students to gun violence. so far this year alone, there have been 120 reported mass shootings, data from the gun violence archive shows. on saturday, us presidentjoe biden issued a statement to mark the anniversary of columbine and condemn gun violence. in it he said "i've met with countless families who've lost loved ones because of gun violence. their message is always the same: do something." but gun control is a highly polarising issue in the us. many democrats advocate for stricter gun laws, while republicans tend to view gun ownership as a fundamental right. so where can agreement be reached? i put that question to kris brown. she's the president of brady united against gun violence. we're seeing a lot of progress across states that her passing laws

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makes it on the news. you were born one _ makes it on the news. you were born one year — makes it on the news. you were born one year after _ makes it on the news. you were born one year after the - born one year after the columbine high school shooting. i'm curious, do you ever think back and think the us might�*ve missed an opportunity 25 years ago to take stronger action to prevent similar school shootings like the one that ended up affecting you and your classmates at parkland? yes. yes. classmates at parkland? yes. yes- the _ classmates at parkland? yes. yes. the bottom _ classmates at parkland? yes. yes. the bottom line - classmates at parkland? yes. yes. the bottom line is - classmates at parkland? yes. yes. the bottom line is if - classmates at parkland? yes. yes. the bottom line is if the| yes. the bottom line is if the federal government acted and pass comprehensive gun laws following columbine that raise the standard of ownership for all people to own a gun in the united states i probably would not be talking with you right now. the shooter in my high school was a 19—year—old with a long history of mental illness and also anti—semitism and hatred towards people of other races. he was able despite being a known threat able to go out and legally obtain in ar 15 is a 19—year—old. out and legally obtain in ar 15 is a 19-year-old._ is a 19-year-old. what do you make of some _ is a 19-year-old. what do you make of some of _ is a 19-year-old. what do you make of some of the - is a 19-year-old. what do you make of some of the ways - is a 19-year-old. what do you | make of some of the ways that

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marking a turning point for the country. on the eve of the anniversary, community members gathered in denver, colorado to remember the lives lost. candles flickered on 13 empty chairs — one for each of the victims — as short biographies were read out. after each, the crowd replied together "never forgotten." "never forgotten. " since columbine, gun violence in the united states has become increasingly severeboth in schools and in wider communities. according to data collected by the washington post, there have been more than 400 school shootings since 1999 — exposing more than 370 thousand students to gun violence. so far this year alone, there have been 120 reported mass shootings — that data coming from the gun violence archive. on saturday, us presidentjoe biden issued a statement to mark the anniversary of columbine and condemn gun violence. in it he said quote — "i've met with countless families who've lost loved ones because of gun violence.

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largely in my opinion a lot of thatis largely in my opinion a lot of that is happened is because of the courage of young people to stand up and not accept a country where we're told the only solution that we had to keep it safe in their schools is to teach them how to potentially survive a school shooter instead of addressing how that shooter gets the gun of the first place. the shooter and parkland was a criminal but not a mastermind. he was a deranged 19 years old that was able to legally access in ar 15. ., ., , ., able to legally access in ar 15. ., l, able to legally access in ar 15. how hopeful are you that the us can _ 15. how hopeful are you that the us can take _ 15. how hopeful are you that the us can take action - 15. how hopeful are you that the us can take action to - the us can take action to prevent another columbine or another parkland? i prevent another columbine or another parkland?— another parkland? i think sometimes _ another parkland? i think sometimes it _ another parkland? i think sometimes it can - another parkland? i think sometimes it can feel- another parkland? i think| sometimes it can feel like there's a fine line between hope and delusion. with this issue, ultimately it's not hope that drives me it's righteous indignation in the understanding that there is no other high income countries in the world that deals with this level of gun violence for that there's no reason why we should accept this as being a daily reality in our country. whether that's a school shooting or an individual act of gun violence

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