https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2020/04/20/on-this-day-columbine-school-schooling/
On this day in 1999, 12 students and one teacher were murdered at Columbine High School in what was at that time the United States’ worst school shooting.
The killers were two senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who then took their own lives in the school library.
The pair had also planted home-made bombs around the school campus, including in the cafeteria and their cars in the school car park, but the bombs failed to detonate.
Mass shootings are now so common in the US that in 2019, mass shootings outnumbered the days in the year.
By the end of 2019, there were 417 mass shootings in the US, according to data from the non-profit Gun Violence Archive (GVA).
Columbine High School is still in operation today, welcoming hundreds of students.
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