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,Then-Columbine High School Principal Frank DeAngelis was in his office when his secretary ran in and said there was a report of gunfire.But as he stepped into the hall, "My worst nightmare became a reality." About 100 yards away was a gunman coming toward him.
"Today, that strategy of waiting seems nuts. But it was the protocol of the time," DeAngelis wrote in his newly-released book.Another question of protocol concerned the school resource officer, with whom the gunmen exchanged gunfire outside before storming the school, DeAngelis said. A security officer stands guard at the entrance to the Columbine High School library on June 15, 1999, nearly two months after the shooting.
"The simplistic training is 'run, hide, fight,'" Garrett said. Some schools teach students about the best hiding places in the classroom, how to barricade the door and how to throw objects at an intruder as a distraction, he said. "It really felt like we were going to go to school the next day," and she figured she needed to do her homework, Farber recalled. "You're so immature and innocent."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.
Despite the overwhelming trauma, DeAngelis noticed an immense stigma surrounding mental health treatment, and he said he was discouraged from disclosing he was seeing a therapist in case he'd be "deemed unfit for duty."DeAngelis, who spent 18 years as principal, retired in 2014 -- after he felt he had done his duty to heal the community.Demonstrators attend the March for Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
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I remember this photo being everywhere. I wonder where the 4 of them are today.
Rather than re-glorifying the terrible murderous acts - we should remember the victims and look for progress to end these needless horrific tragedies.
There are anniversaries that need to be celebrated, tragedies are not that type... It's not forgetting they happened or ignoring them but not opening old wounds that could cause more harm than good by bringing them up year after year.
What bothers me is all the media attention on this, might unlock someone's bottled up visions of infamy, to copycat or outdo. The power of suggestion is large if the receiving brain is impaired or indoctrinated. I think the publicity part of New Zealand's response is a good thing
WHY DO ALL OF YOU ALWAYS CONTINUE TO OPEN OLD WOUNDS AND NOT HEAL THEM AND MOVE ON. YOU JUST HAVE TO ALWAYS REMIND EACH OTHER AND YOURSELVES ON HOW EVIL AND HATEFUL YOU CAN BE TOWARD EACH OTHER! YOUR ENTERTAINED TO A POINT OF NO RETURN OF DESTRUCTION IF NECESSARY WITH BOMBS!
Horrible event! What's even more horrible is how ABC News along with the other networks refuse to cover the abortion law change in New York state a few weeks ago. Now in N.Y. U can have an abortion up until birth and it no longer needs to be performed by doctor ! They celebrated!
There are no words for this day. There weren't 20 years ago, there aren't any now. Sadly, I believe this ignited the onslaught of school shootings since this tragedy. Kids want to out do what was done at Columbine. My heart breaks for all who have lost ones.
She lost her life on this earth 20 years ago at Columbine. When asked by her killers, “Do you believe in God?” She answered “Yes.” If you haven’t read this book by her mother Misty, search for it. Hard to imagine: An entire generation has now grown up in era of mass shootings. 🙏
During the ban on assault weapons.
Was a horrible day in the history of the US. We had a horrible shooting here at Thurston High near the same time. All these years later and these have, it seems just become ‘normal ‘. The answer is NOT more gun control. The answer IMO is more love to each other. Bring God back.🙏
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Erick Harris and Dylan Klebold after a lot of bullying !!!!!!!
What's sad is no one learned anything or did anything to stop the next one so now after how many years school shooting are a good part of history.
School shootings do not seem to make the United States realize that the arms laws are wrong. Plus, the attitude to weapons is like in the west, so old and unnecessary.
😭 so sad!
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In 1999, we would have believed ABC but in 2019 if you reported this, FAKENEWS till the story is confirmed by real news online. abcnews ZERO credibility
Old news.
Killing Americans is Americas Past Time......thats why we love Guns,,,,
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