On April 20, 1999, our world changed.
Now, finally, a few remarkable kids are helping to transform it again.
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The news coverage of Columbine helped turn the tragedy into an international phenomenon.
Are journalists and media outlets still making the same mistakes 20 years later?
|Violent Lineage
Media contagion and Columbine.
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The war over gun safety has been defined by battles won and lost by literalists and idealists.
In the past decade, Colorado has passed multiple gun control laws. Are they enough?
|Evolving Arsenals
A look at the changing weaponry of school shooters.
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Law & Disorder
Tracking more than a quarter century of high-profile school shootings and the legislative efforts to curb the violence.
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Columbine changed more than just how we respond to school shootings.
It also altered how we try to prevent them.
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Lockdown Nation
Across the country, students are regularly practicing active shooter drills. But are the exercises making kids safer? And at what cost?
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Anxiety and depression are increasingly plaguing American adolescents.
Understanding why may help reduce teen suicides—and mass shootings.
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“People outside this community know about us because of one moment in time.”
How a place beset by unspeakable violence and grief has redefined itself over the past two decades.
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In Memoriam
We Are All Columbine.
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