On April 20, 1999, two students opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, gunning down 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before killing themselves. America endured school shootings before Columbine, but never 'one quite like that one,' said ABC News contributor and
On April 20, 1999, two students opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, gunning down 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before killing themselves.
She was sitting by the door, so she and her classmates rushed out, running through the parking lot to a residential street, where they knocked on strangers' doors for help. Once Farber was safely inside a home, she heard shots across the parking lot. 'That strategy of waiting seems nuts'DeAngelis tried to get back inside the school, but officers said he couldn't -- they had to secure the perimeter and wait for SWAT.
"One of the big issues in Columbine was law enforcement wasn't trained to go after the shooter," said Garrett, the former FBI agent. Instead of immediately confronting the threat and racing into the building, police secured the scene and waited for SWAT teams to arrive, which allowed the gunmen to continue to fire inside.
Though schools have multiple doors, now they're commonly set up so students only use certain ones to get into the building, setting up a"choke point" that"security people can control as they come into school," Garrett said. Though new measures are in place in schools, mass shootings overall aren't on the decline, Garrett said.
Farber wanted life to go on"as normal as possible," but"there's just always this underlying feeling of guilt," she said."Could I have done something to make this not happen?" Each student dealt with the tragedy in a different way, he said. DeAngelis soon realized Columbine could no longer serve Chinese food because that was served the day of the shooting. Some students wouldn't participate in fire drills. The school couldn't show war movies, he said, and the administration banned camouflage clothing because first responders wore it that day.
Beyond ColumbineOne thing that hasn't changed is that school shootings are still happening, with one after another unfolding in the 20 years since Columbine. Sometimes after a high-profile mass shooting, states will tighten up gun laws, requiring background checks, restricting the age for buying guns, reducing the sale of assault-type weapons or banning the sale of high capacity magazines, said Garrett.
Meanwhile, just as a new school shooting reignites the gun control debate, it also introduces a new, shocked community to Columbine's unfortunate club, and as the leaders of the pack, Columbine survivors feel a duty to pay it forward. Other Columbine survivors founded The Rebels Project, a non-profit that connects mass shootings survivors with each other to help find a support system.
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