The Power of the Parkland Town Hall
The CNN-hosted event highlighted the voices of student activists, and showed why the gun debate might actually be different this time around.
by Vann R. Newkirk II
Feb 22, 2018
4 minutes
I was 10 years old when, in 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students at Columbine High School, in what was then the most-deadly school shooting in American history. What I can recall most from my childhood mind from the time aren’t the gruesome details in the news reports or even the sense of dread that gripped students and teachers across the country, but the feeling that something central about the country had changed. Something about America had shifted, and it was significant enough that even a child’s understanding could grasp it.
Almost two decades later, after multiple mass shootings and dozens of slain.
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