15 Years After Columbine

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Goth culture has largely faded, enforcement of movie, tv, and video game ratings has strengthened

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20 years later and we still haven't learned a damn thing.

What?  There were a lot of policy changes immediately in the aftermath of Columbine that have carried through to the current day.  Zero-tolerance policies being chief among them.

I'd bet that zero tolerance policies have ruined more kids' lives than shootings have. In addition to the consequences of expulsion, if the response to bullying is to punish the victim, there's more of a motive to bully than there otherwise would be. Parents always believe the school over their kids and therefore punish their kids further for something their kids didn't do. We should talk about schools the way we talk about cops.

[darklordoftech]

20 years later and we still haven't learned a damn thing.

What?  There were a lot of policy changes immediately in the aftermath of Columbine that have carried through to the current day.  Zero-tolerance policies being chief among them.

And mass shootings continue to happen regularly in this country, too.

The only real cure to mass shootings is the hardest one to achieve, and that is economic stability bringing forth societal stability. Until then, our best bet is cracking down on gun sales to at least lessen the blow of each spree killing event.

There were shootings in the 1950s.

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The deadlist school attack in US history was in Bath Township Michigan in 1927.

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I wonder if one day, "lockdown drills" will be seen the same way "duck and cover" drills are seen today.