Tag: columbine
Guns in schools for student safety
Patrick Neville was a sophomore at Columbine High School when two peers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, murdered 12 students and a teacher before...
Why the gun safety laws made in Colorado stayed in Colorado
DENVER – Almost unnoticed, something remarkable happened in Colorado over the last month: The common sense gun safety regulations passed in the wake of the Aurora and Newtown massacres survived despite attempts to overturn them.
Littwin on Tom Tancredo as sympathetic softie
Greg Brophy has done the impossible. After days of attacks on Tom Tancredo, in which Brophy has called Tancredo a "loser" and "unprepared" and a book writer (more on that later), Brophy has very nearly -- well, almost very nearly -- made Tancredo seem sympathetic.
Grown up and baffled and a vigil of one at Arapahoe...
Schooley graduated in 1998, just before the massacre at Columbine, which is mere miles from here. After the shooting Friday, he put on his Arapahoe High letterman’s jacket and stood at the intersection by the school with candle in a Dixie cup.
Arapahoe shooter: An AP student who cracked jokes
“I knew him, I mean I knew him personally,” said an Arapahoe High School senior. “We had AP History together and he was always cracking jokes, annoying the teacher. He seemed like a nice enough guy.”
Another tragedy — and the tragic feeling that never goes away
A New York Times reporter tweets that it's hard to find a reporter working in Colorado who hasn't had to rush off to the scene of a shooting. It feels all too familiar. Worse, it's a feeling that never seems to go away.
Disturbed man, guns, death: Not shocked, beyond shocked
It is too soon to know why it happened or exactly how it happened. But we know this: A man walked into the Navy Yard in Washington D.C. Monday morning and killed at least 12 people and was himself killed.
Get help: Columbine principal to Navy Yard officials in wake of...
Columbine High School principal Frank DeAngelis told the Washington Post that officials have to "help themselves" work through trauma if they're going to be any help to others. "It's not something that ever ends."
Aurora Shooting Anniversary Rally Promotes Gun Control as Worthy Memorial
AURORA-- Advocates for gun control gathered at noon in a sun-blanched local park to mark the one-year anniversary of the midnight movie-theater shooting here that killed 12, injured 70 and gripped a nation grown accustomed to a news cycle that now features indiscriminate gun massacres at regular intervals.
Session notes: Colorado moved ahead or stayed even on education, gay...
Colorado legislative debate this year on education, gay rights and women's health policies reflected larger well-worn national political back-and-forths, where showy speeches on immigration "illegals," "traditional marriage" and religious freedom often sidetrack efforts to serve the public good.