Columbine survivor shares story of grief, emotional resilience in Winona news8000.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news8000.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Coloradoâs straw gun purchaser ban not only applies to people who buy firearms for someone who isnât legally eligible to own or possess one, but also to anyone who shares guns with them, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
The law, approved by the Colorado Legislature in 2000 by a bipartisan group of lawmakers in response to the shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton a year earlier, makes it a Class 4 felony to purchase a firearm, and then give or transfer it to someone who cannot legally own a weapon, such as a convicted felon.
Doing so is punishable by up to 6 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
Survivor remembers Columbine shooting on 22nd anniversary krdo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from krdo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After every tragedy, we hear the same question. We hear it over and over again. The parents ask it. The grandparents ask it. The children in the school ask it. And we have never received a real answer. We have never received an answer that makes sense, that fits our understanding of the world. Why? Why? Why?
I lived through the Columbine tragedy as an adult, with my children at the school. My wife and I asked that same question: Why? But we didn’t leave it as a theoretical or rhetorical question. We tried to find the answer.
You can read this and learn, or keep asking the same question and never learn. It has been 22 years since Columbine, and there have been many killings. Isn’t it time to learn the lesson?