I'm at Columbine High School in Colorado today, where many students will be walking out of class to protest gun violence and call for gun laws to be changed.pic.twitter.com/pDtew2uE6H
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Almost 20 years ago, two students opened fire here, killing 13 people. Looking back, it seems to have been the beginning of a generation of mass shootings.
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I spoke with students at Columbine this morning. Their childhoods were wrapped in the legacy of the violence here. “It’s an issue that should have been solved when Columbine happened,” said Alessia Fortin, 16. "This is an issue that needs to be solved. Now.”
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Easton Summer, 17, a junior, said he would also be walking out. The deaths at his school “happened because those two kids had weapons that should have been used in the military. Just like all the other shootings,” he said. “We do need to take action.”
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That is Summers, with an s at the end.
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Not everyone here at Columbine will be walking out. Caleb Conrad, 16, will stay in class. "People say it’s all about gun control, it’s all about: We should ban guns. But that’s not the real issue here. The real issue is the people who are doing it.”
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He realizes he might be alone in the class. “I feel like I’m a minority. Definitely.”
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