It's not OK.
On April 20, 1999, I was a junior in high school. I had stayed after school because I had practice for the spring musical, but the rehearsal wasn’t right after school so I had some time to fill between the two. I just didn’t have a ride back to the school if I went home. I remember walking through the cafeteria that afternoon and looking up at the TV. The news was on and it was showing footage of Columbine High School in Colorado. I remember standing there in disbelief. It was one of those things that was difficult to comprehend, because it had never happened before. I mean, we had had bomb scares from my middle school, but those were always some prankster calling from the pay phone in the school to get out of class – and they stopped when the pay phone was taken out. And I remember those bomb threats as being fun times hanging out with my friends instead of being in class. I never thought it could be real. Not until Columbine. And what breaks my heart is that today's youth have