On the recordApril 21, 1999
I wanted to just take a few minutes to focus the attention of the Senate on this terrible tragedy that occurred yesterday in our schools. We all now know two students of Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, stormed into their school and began shooting at students and teachers, yesterday. The last that I heard, police believed that 16 people have been killed. Many of them were either just beginning their lunch or were studying in the library at the time they were assaulted. The details behind the violence are overwhelming, and the motivations leading to it are incomprehensible to all of us. But we are left wondering how this could happen in a suburban community like Littleton, CO. I know we all grieve with the parents of those students and the families of the faculty who were killed yesterday. Our Nation has witnessed five violent events in our schools during the past 17 months and we need to focus on that pattern of activity.
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