"I'd be willing to bet that these Parkland kids will be doing the same thing if these tragedies happen down the road."īut when it comes to preventing these future tragedies, DeAngelis hopes people know "there are kids that need help in schools." "There's that instant credibility, which I think really helps," DeAngelis said. Parkland students visited Colorado last year to meet Columbine survivors, DeAngelis said, and the elders gave the teenagers guidance on how to maneuver their years ahead. Some captured the nation's attention: the horror of the mass murder of 20 young children and six educators in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 were gunned down, allegedly by a former classmate, sparking a student-led revolt for gun reform across the country. The massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007 is the deadliest school shooting in U.S. Three of these shootings - Sandy Hook, Parkland and Virginia Tech - were deadlier than Columbine. Since Columbine, there have been 11 school shootings that were considered mass shootings - where four or more victims were killed. One thing that hasn't changed is that school shootings are still happening, with one after another unfolding in the 20 years since Columbine.Īt least 143 people have been killed in school shootings since Columbine, according to The Washington Post (school shootings are not tallied by the federal government, The Post notes).
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