Columbine High School

Here's something the Democrats and Republican politicians, our so-called journalists, and the White House try to sweep under the rug.

On Thursday, May 27, 1999, Daryl Scott, the father of Racial Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee.

But what he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.

It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert.

He did not hesitate to pray in school.

I defy any law or politician to deny him that right.

I challenge every young person in America and around the world to realize that on April 20th, 1999 at columbine high school prayer was brought back to our schools do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your god given right to communicate with him.

To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA, I give to you a sincere challenge.

And I don't know what we're going to talk about.

Two Columbine High School students were found shot to death at a Subway sandwich place in Littleton, Colorado.

Nobody knows who did it yet unless something happens since I found out about this that I don't know about.

Nobody knows why they were shot.

How many of you were surprised to hear that he wore a trench coat? They never mentioned that in the news.

Just like the two students at Columbine High School in Colorado who did the same thing.

Trench coat.

But that wasn't in the press.

I wanted to tell you in regards to that that there was something that I left you e-mail about, and it was something from Phyllis Schlafly's site.

They were apparently teaching something called deaf education at Columbine High School back in 1986.

Yes.

This certainly looks like an indoctrination program.

In 1998, 15-year-old Kip Kinkle killed his parents before opening fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two students and wounding many others.

In 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado.

Columbine would become a defining event in the history of American school shootings.

In 2012, 20 children and six educators were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

We're still seeing the influence of Doom over 30 years since this game came out.

And during the 1990s, it was a topic of anxiety, but not was really a subject of any sort of major concerted effort to have it censored or banned or have it shown as an example of the moral degradation of society until April the 20th, 1999, when a pair of seniors over at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado, enacted what was then the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

and we talked about last time that impact that the columbine shooting had and the shock and the horror because of course this was a novel time in the united states when these kinds of mass death events particularly the ones involving children was still pretty new and not a regular occurrence there was a lot of fumbling for meaning in the public discourse about what might have caused this and it went in all sorts of different directions and one of those was violent video games And this then turned into basically a massive public freakout over Doom specifically.

And Doom as some kind of potential contributing factor to what the two shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, did in their school.

I'm Ryan Warner.

Krista Hanley survived the attack on Columbine High School.

She's written a memoir, How to Survive a Mass Shooting, and she invited us to the book

launch at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

Yes.

I mean, I think we can't help but to wonder, what if those bombs had gone off? What if I'd encountered them in my way out of the school? What if? Like, does, I think, chase the survivor happen?

Our guest is Krista Hanley, survivor of the attack on Columbine High School.

She's written How to Survive a Mass Shooting.