Last month, Kaylee Tyner and other students at Columbine High School launched a ...
LITTLETON, Colo. - Last month, Kaylee Tyner and other students at Columbine High School launched a campaign dubbed #MyLastShot, asking students across the country to pledge to publicize images of their deaths if they became victims of a mass shooting.
“In the event that I die from gun violence, please publicize the photo of my death,” the pledge reads. The #MyLastShot group is asking relatives to share the grisly images of a death across social media in their campaign for gun control., says the public should not be shielded from the gruesome scenes of mass shootings.
“Part of me feels bad that she was mentally ill, didn’t get help, and all this ended in her death,” Tyner said on Wednesday in a text message. “But I also am frustrated as she caused such a huge disruption with her threats and her infatuation with Columbine.”Neither Kaylee Tyner, nor any of her classmates at Columbine High School were alive on April 20, 1999, when a mass shooting at their school marked a modern era of mass school shootings.
Beyond what occurred at her school, Tyner and other student activists were dismayed by a recent spree of mass shootings, including one last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people died.
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