superintendent of schools i m familiar with them having gone to them myself and columbine hit hard in colorado. that was in 1999. since then we ve seen mass shootings as schools. it feels like increasingly so. what are your thought today after this master massacre and the calls to do something? i ve got three of my own doctors in the schools, i think it s an american tragedy that children are growing up in this country frightened that this kind of thing could happen in their school. i know that they are because of the kids in the denver public schools, and my own kids. so i hope that congress will finally act to tighten up the background checks that colorado has tightened up. close the gun loophole and internet loophole, and respond to this because the helplessness and the hopelessness that we re