How mass shootings became our norm

June 13, 2016

The image of students running from Columbine High School was seared into the mind of those old enough to understand it. That image, of people running from a shooter, would repeat over and over again all across America.

“I think we are at the point where we as a society are sick of it and people are really fed up,” Hamline Professor Jillian Peterson, who has studied mass shootings and how to prevent them, said.