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Twelve years after Columbine, no consensus on making schools safer
- 04-21-2011
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By Adam Martin/The Atlantic
Today marks twelve years since two students walked through Colorado's Columbine High School, gunning down students and teachers before turning their weapons on themselves. Altogether, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher, injuring another 21 students. It's also just a few days past the April 16 anniversary of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, in which Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people before killing himself. With such notable anniversaries upon us (not to mention yesterday's rather different incident in which a six-year-old brought a gun to school that accidentally went off and injured three people), the push to allow guns on college and even high school campuses is gaining ground in some parts of the country. On the other side of the coin, anti-bullying laws seek to prevent future Columbine-type incidents. (more...)
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