Columbine survivor opens her backpack for the first time since the day of the shooting.

This was really cool. It had a few layers. Time capsule, but also here’s a woman who you could pass on the sidewalk and not know she was part of this. There are all these adults carrying around this experience.

But when she found the note from April 20… she was doing such a banal thing as those guys were getting ready … that was powerful to me.

Not even from the States. But definitely remember watching bloody kids climb out windows live on TV…

I feel like alot of the people dissing on this dont realize how big of a media deal this was. I mean how many school shootings have happened since then that you remember the name of even...

Time capsules have been a thing for a long time and this was before the internet was what it is now. Assuming this was a 25 year plot to get internet points is bananas, and even if you wouldn’t do it, fuck off trauma hits different people differently. Anyone who has had it, would know the importance of processing it and if that can help prevent more of this, 25 years later where few laws have changed, I’m fine with it. 

Cynical and nihilistic professional full time internet haters is sort of my least favorite type of user.

There have been about 500 school shootings since Columbine

She carried homework and lip gloss to school and her classmates brought shotguns. Gut wrenching.

I just watched an Atrioc video about how insanely uneducated kids are today, and one of the examples was a 7th grade teacher saying that nearly half her class was on a kindergarten reading level. Then I see all these notes and math equations this woman wrote down when she was nearly their age, and just wonder how adults could have failed gen z and gen alpha so horribly with their policy decisions yet have the audacity to criticize kids for not being prepared for adulthood. It’s pretty shameful how badly boomers and much of gen x has failed us.

This is interesting to watch

Luckily this never happened again

Highly recommend the book “Columbine.” One of the best non fictions I’ve read in the past couple years.

I still write all my notes this way! But I am a 35 year old college student.