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Twenty Years Later A Look At Columbine, Then And Now

By Leigh Paterson

Published April 17, 2019 at 6:27 PM EDT

A young child reads the plaques at the Columbine Memorial near Rebel Hill and Columbine HIgh School in Littleton, Colorado. [Helen H. Richardson / The Denver Post via Getty Images] — A young child reads the plaques at the Columbine Memorial near Rebel Hill and Columbine HIgh School in Littleton, Colorado.

The nation was shocked on April 20, 1999, when 12 students and one teacher were killed in amass shooting at Columbine High School outside of Denver, Colorado.

In the 20 years since, through other prominent school shootings from Sandy Hook to Parkland and an ongoing rise in U.S. shooting deaths, Columbine has loomed large in our politics, policy and culture.

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