“Anxiety is huge and there are a lot of kids that are dealing with higher levels of anxiety then I ever remembered coming up in high school.”
Helen H. Richardson / The Denver Post / Via Getty Images
A young child reads the plaques at the Columbine Memorial near Rebel Hill and Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
From KERA:
The nation was shocked on April 20, 1999, when 12 students and one teacher were killed in a mass shooting at Columbine High School outside Denver, Colorado.
In the 20 years since, through other prominent school shootings from Sandy Hook to Parkland and an ongoing rise in U.S. shooting deaths, Columbine has loomed large in our politics, policy and culture.
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