Something has to be done. More gun restrictions, more funding for mental health care, better training for law enforcement. It should be all of those things.
Twenty-four years after the mass shooting at Columbine High School, the dialogue has not changed much and the violence continues.There are dates on the calendar that stand out. Birthdays and holidays, fun days like the day I brought home my cat. There are other dates that have a grim reminder: the day a loved one died or something on a more devastating scale, such as 9/11.
Nearly 1,000 miles away, I was a 16-year-old junior at Judson High School. Part of me is surprised that an incident so far away, something I have had no direct connection to, has had such a lasting impact on me. The requirement for see-through backpacks — even before Columbine — was annoying. Wearing my school ID on a chain around my neck was annoying. Having to tuck in my collared shirt was annoying. Admittedly, not much wasn’t annoying as a teenager, especially those seemingly arbitrary rules from adults.See-through backpacks, school IDs, closed campus lunches — they’re the least we could have done to keep everyone safe.
In my role as op-ed and letters editor, I’ve read several letters imploring the Express-News to stop reporting on Uvalde or for the opinion team to stop demanding more gun control. We’re not going to do that. It has been 24 years since Columbine, and we’re still facing the same dilemma: gun rights versus gun control.
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