Columbine - 22 years Later

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado happened 22 years ago this week. Katie gives a special Final Word to Laura Hall and Sarah Bush -- sisters who survived the shooting, and in 2019 ran the Boston Marathon together. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Vonage.
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0:10.4	From call analytics and virtual assistants to automatic speech recognition and text to speech in multiple languages.
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0:23.9	Take your calls to the next level with Vonage Voice API.
0:27.0	Learn more at Vonage.com.
0:35.6	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow.
0:42.1	Welcome to Words Matter.
0:43.8	I'm Katie Barlow.
0:45.6	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:48.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:54.9	Words have power and words have consequences.
1:04.8	The shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado happened 20 years ago this week.
1:10.2	It has been 20 years since America watched in horror as its children were murdered by gun violence at school.
1:18.0	A place that was at that point a safe space.
1:22.2	But in those 20 years, schools, the place where we send our children to grow and learn and give back to this country, schools have changed.
1:31.8	Yes, teachers still come to work every day excited to grow young minds and teach our next generation the way of the world.
1:38.7	But their classrooms, they look different now on this side of the 20 years since Columbine.
1:44.3	Desks that are supposed to be used for writing or painting, they have another purpose now.
1:50.1	Emergency barricades against a man with a gun wandering the hall.
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