Op-Ed: I lived through Columbine. Here’s what I have to say to survivors of mass shootings
2 years, 6 months ago

Op-Ed: I lived through Columbine. Here’s what I have to say to survivors of mass shootings

LA Times  

Dear Survivor, Our country has mass shootings almost daily now. In 1999, at age 17, I crouched on the floor of Columbine High School’s cafeteria while two of my friends began their murderous spree, ultimately killing 13 classmates and one teacher. These days, though, many shootings don’t get top media coverage, unless they are particularly heinous, such as the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two teachers in May. America has learned to live with the almost constant recurrence of mass violence, and a collective apathy has taken over when there’s death on a mass scale. As a survivor, I don’t believe I’ll ever be “healed.” The process of surviving isn’t linear or binary, you don’t suddenly become perfectly fine.

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