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"How am I supposed to explain this to my children?!" (i.ibb.co)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm 43, and we didn't have them at all by the time I graduated in '96

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Columbine was in '99, so that checks out. I think schools started doing them sometime after that tragedy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.