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re: 20 years ago today - Columbine High School massacre- where were you?

Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:41 pm to
Posted by tWildcat
Verona, KY
Member since Oct 2014
20234 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:41 pm to
Klebold made this video the day before the shooting, seemed so calm when he knew what was going to happen the next day.

YouTube
Posted by onelochevy
Slidell, LA
Member since Jan 2011
18320 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:44 pm to
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I was a senior in high school.


Same here
Posted by GeauxtigersMs36
The coast
Member since Jan 2018
13239 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:01 pm to
In high school. Went to a public school and it didn’t really register. Pearl on the other hand really hit home. Later we went to a playoff game and I to this day have no idea how kids went back to school there.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53535 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:05 pm to
All of these events are tragic but the Newtown shooting at Sandy Hook shook me up the most. Probably because I had a little girl in school about the same age as those kids.
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
30122 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:05 pm to
I was in 7th grade. This was the first school shooting that really seemed to resonate nationwide.

I was at LSU when Virginia Tech went down. That shooting hit close to home.

The two recent ones, Parkland and Santa Fe, have had me on edge. I’m a teacher, so every time these things happen there’s a review of protocol for emergencies. You know damn well these other schools and faculty/admin have the same meetings and review these same procedures.
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
77205 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:08 pm to
Yeah, it could happen anywhere at any time. These overmedicated and undersocialized kids of today are in a bad place many times. Throw in social media pressure and they are ticking time bombs.
Posted by Teddy Ruxpin
Member since Oct 2006
40863 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:11 pm to
quote:

Incorrect. They never had anyone try and physically stop em. They waited for the car bomb to go off. When it didn’t they blew there heads off. In the library where they killed most of the kids


I wasn't talking about Columbine
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
129146 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:12 pm to
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I don't remember to be honest. It was different than 9/11 when everyone was callin each other and telling them to turn on their TV immediately.


That was the point I was trying to make as well. Its not like 9/11. Most people....if you asked them later in the year “what was the date of Columbine shootings?” They wouldn’t be able to give you the exact date.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53535 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:19 pm to
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That was the point I was trying to make as well. Its not like 9/11. 

I don't remember where I was either although I remember a lot about it. I remember the shooters names and other details. Didn't they emulate Stephen King's book Rage?
Posted by BowlJackson
Birmingham, AL
Member since Sep 2013
52881 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:20 pm to
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I was 7 years old


Twinsies
Posted by RealityTiger
Geismar, LA
Member since Jan 2010
20543 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:24 pm to
I was actually living in Denver and working in Lakewood at that time. That day, I left the office to go eat lunch in my car. There was a parking lot that had a great view of the Rockies and I would go eat there from time to time just to get out and would listen to the radio. I turned the radio on, and the coverage was already on. I was listening for about a minute, and saw cop car after cop car zooming down Colfax in that direction. The whole thing was surreal.

Listened to the whole day of local news coverage. Something like that was unprecedented at the time, and the whole community was in shock. shite, the whole nation was in shock.
Posted by Korin
Member since Jan 2014
37935 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:27 pm to
I was in middle school. Don't think we knew about it until after school got out.
They had bombs that should've gone off in the cafeteria right before the shooting and another one in the parking lot right after but they used clocks that had plastic arms instead of metal. Roughly 500 people were in the cafeteria when it should've gone off 3 minutes before they started shooting.
Posted by Open Dore Policy
The Commodore State
Member since Oct 2012
5451 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:27 pm to
In school.

Not at Columbine though.

So it couldn't have been me.
Posted by Korin
Member since Jan 2014
37935 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:29 pm to
And the infamous Jaguars WTF guy was there as a senior. He's in the middle with his trademark look while the shooters are in the top left.

Posted by JudgeHolden
Gila River
Member since Jan 2008
18566 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:39 pm to
Giving a speech.
Posted by debragga
Funroe
Member since Apr 2019
59 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 2:17 pm to
My mom was in labor with me. Today is my 20th birthday
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 2:53 pm to
Happy birthday!
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
72482 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 3:01 pm to
I was FedExing some film for an undergraduate film class at Southern Miss when I heard the first rumblings on AM talk radio in my car.
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
59245 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 3:12 pm to
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oleyeller


quote:

was 16 in school here in mississippi.


No lie, I always thought you were some senile 70 year old
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
59245 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 3:15 pm to
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the infamous Jaguars WTF guy was there as a senior


Tell me you aren’t making this up
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