Growing Up With School Shootings

The threat of violent attacks has shaped my childhood since the beginning

Bella Czajkowski
GEN
Published in
5 min readDec 11, 2019

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TThe Columbine massacre occurred exactly five months before I was born. When recounting the incident with my mom recently, she recalled thinking “what kind of world was I bringing my child into?” In time, she would help me onto the school bus for my first day of school. Would she do so…

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