Most of them were not yet born when students shot a dozen people to death inside Columbine High School in Colorado, an atrocity that sparked a national debate over guns exactly 19 years ago. But on Friday, on the anniversary of the April 20, 1999, shooting, the several thousand high school students who walked out of schools across the city and beyond to rally against guns in Manhattan said they felt they lived in a world of near-constant Columbines. Caroline Castellano, 16, a sophomore at Hunter College High School in Manhattan, had only just recently heard the name Columbine. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyEarlier this year, Kathya said, there was a scare at her school when a student brought in a weapon. (According to a New York City Department of Education spokeswoman, the weapon was an air gun, which police confiscated.)

Source: New York Times April 20, 2018 23:47 UTC