We'll be talking about the impact of gun violence in this podcast.

If this is a difficult topic for you, please take care when listening.

Call and buy in high school, fall 1998. Seniors were planning their future,

filling out college applications, stressing over their personal essays, and dreaming of what comes next.

But the two Columbine perpetrators were making plans of their own.

They wanted to acquire guns, but they weren't 18 yet, so they asked a friend to purchase guns for them.

Robin Anderson bought two shotguns and one rifle at a local gun show.

While other students at Columbine learned how to drive, the killers learned how to shoot.

Their classroom rampart range.

Spring approached and kids were imagining prom and playing outdoor sports.

But the perpetrators were imagining destruction and playing God.

They called it judgment day.

April 20, 1999. Here was the plan.

Students would fill the cafeteria at lunchtime, and at least seven bombs would detonate at 11.17.

The building would collapse, and hundreds would be killed.

The explosions and fire would send students and faculty running for their lives and out of the school,

but directly into a trap.

The killers would be waiting at the exits armed with their semi-automatic weapons.

45 minutes later, when everyone thought it was over,

the perpetrator's cars would explode, killing first responders,

students, journalists, and anyone else in the area.

The final piece of their plan? To have fun.

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