ZeroCool@vger.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago"How am I supposed to explain this to my children?!"i.ibb.coimagemessage-square169linkfedilinkarrow-up11.71Karrow-down144
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minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI’m 43, and we didn’t have them at all by the time I graduated in '96
minus-squarecandybrie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoColumbine was in '99, so that checks out. I think schools started doing them sometime after that tragedy.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhich was kinda weird to me. Bowling Green happened a couple years earlier, and there had been school shootings in this country ever since the mid to late 1800s. Seemed like an overreaction to me.
minus-squarecandybrie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhat are you referring to with Bowling Green?
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoApparently it was Paducah, not Bowling Green, I conflated two different stories https://ny1.com/nyc/queens/ap-top-news/2022/09/17/25-years-after-kentucky-school-shooting-a-chance-at-parole https://www.ksba.org/protected/ArticleView.aspx?iid=6GAU2A2&dasi=3G32
I’m 43, and we didn’t have them at all by the time I graduated in '96
Columbine was in '99, so that checks out. I think schools started doing them sometime after that tragedy.
Which was kinda weird to me. Bowling Green happened a couple years earlier, and there had been school shootings in this country ever since the mid to late 1800s. Seemed like an overreaction to me.
What are you referring to with Bowling Green?
Apparently it was Paducah, not Bowling Green, I conflated two different stories
https://ny1.com/nyc/queens/ap-top-news/2022/09/17/25-years-after-kentucky-school-shooting-a-chance-at-parole
https://www.ksba.org/protected/ArticleView.aspx?iid=6GAU2A2&dasi=3G32