With the 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting looming, several grieving parents and survivors sat down with NBCNightlyNews to talk about what has changed and what, sadly, has not.
Columbine school shooting 20 years later: Victims' families reflect on what has changed and what hasn't
"It seems like every month, there’s a new tragedy of some kind somewhere around,” said Rick Townsend, whose daughter, Lauren, was 18 when she was gunned down. “It just makes you feel sometimes hopeless.” “When there is another school tragedy, which just rips at our hearts every time we see that, the word Columbine will be brought up,” Anna said."This is an amazingly strong, loving community, and Columbine, that word Columbine, should mean that. United."
Of those, 143 children, teachers and others were killed and another 294 were injured, according to the newspaper’s tally. In the aftermath, many schools beefed up security, began holding lockdown drills, and introduced “zero tolerance” rules meant to thwart massacres by cracking down hard on students who threaten violence.
Sean Graves, one of the survivors, has said in previous interviews that he knew the shooters but was not close to either of them. He said he was across the street from the school with his buddies when the bullets began to fly. Graves said everybody who was at Columbine that day was a victim, not just the people who were hit by the gunfire.
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