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04/22/18 10:34 AM

#278853 RE: BOREALIS #278843

Twenty years after Columbine, an American generation raised on school shootings fights back

Jessica Sutherland
Daily Kos Staff
Friday April 20, 2018 · 2:00 PM CDT


Two different messages prove that just three little words can say so much.

Nineteen years after the massacre at Columbine shocked the entire nation, five years and four months after Sandy Hook made the American president cry on television, and two months after Parkland shocked us again, students at over 2,500 schools across the U.S. united for a second National School Walkout, calling, once again, for the grownups to do something to stop gun violence in this country.

https://twitter.com/MoveOn/status/987320649168424965/photo/1?tfw_site=dailykos&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2018%2F4%2F20%2F1758681%2F-Nearly-20-years-after-Columbine-an-American-generation-raised-on-school-shootings-fights-back


But this is what it looks like when school shootings are the norm—students and teachers now know exactly how to best barricade a classroom door. For anyone who left high school before the early aughts, this seems foreign and shocking, but just about every K-12 student in America today was born after Columbine.

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This is the new normal, the only normal, that today’s youth has ever known. It’s been their normal since kindergarten. And American children (and their educators and parents) are tired of feeling unsafe in their schools.



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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/20/1758681/-Nearly-20-years-after-Columbine-an-American-generation-raised-on-school-shootings-fights-back


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04/24/18 5:19 AM

#278934 RE: BOREALIS #278843

How Parkland student David Hogg beats his critics


Vox

Published on Apr 19, 2018

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has some strategies for dealing with smears and conspiracy theories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUNWpne9CE