in 1999 two students opened fire at columbine high school in littleton colorado killing a dozen classmates and teachers before turning the gun on himself. another gunman killed himself at the virginia tech campus and killed 33. and earlier this year, a gunman shot and killed several people at oikos university. that man is now in jail. we have comments from some of the family members of the the oikos shooting. >>> and law enforcement sources say at least three guns were found at the shooting scene. two pistols were found inside the school. one was a glock. a three 234 caliber rifle was at a car parked at that school. that car is said to belong to the gunman's mother. the debate over guns flairs up every time there's a shooting like this. we'll take a look at california's own gun laws. >>> the school shooting once again raises questions about campus security, what can be done to better protect children, students and faculty from another deadly attack. >>> ktvu's alex sadvige has been looking at this with security experts and he tells us what he's learned. >> reporter: this is a day to re-exa

note snote the ♪ >> the tragedy in connecticut hitting close to home for survivors of the columbine high schoolg in colorado. a reporter talked with school leaders there and parents who were there in 1999. >> just like to start off by just offering our condolences and prayers to the people in connecticut. >> kelly: doing his best to fight back tears, frank deangelus talked about shock and sadness. >> close to home and just making us realize how vulnerable we are as a society. >> kelly: it was almost 14 years ago when two gunman entered columbine and slaughtered 13 students and to deangelus, the connecticut elementary school has entered a clib. >> we have to stand up and saying enough is enough what is wrong with our society. and again, there's not one right answer. >> reporter: this principal believes a lot of lessons learned. but the answer does not lie in spending more money on

the future build this community up i mean i have experienced and seen what happened after columbine high school and the years and years and years that is take for that community to heal what do you think the next steps are going to be for your community oh gosh i don't know i think it's going to. it's going to take a lot of counseling i mean i can even imagine being an elementary school shooting in elementary school just you know on your way just a normal day at school and and having this massive atrocity happen. i think it's going to take a long time for these wounds to heal i mean i don't know i don't have an answer it's. i don't know one thing we do know is that parents across the country and across the world are going to be holding their kids just a little bit tighter tonight yeah and it's such a tragedy to happen right before the holiday season are to correspondent liz wahl thank you for bringing us that update thank you. on now to another topic a recent u.s. census bureau report projects that the u.s. will become a majority minority nation in the first for the first time in twenty forty t

least the 31st school shooting in the united states since the stunning rampage 13 years ago at columbine high school> elementary schools across the country have been preparing for lockdown drills, evacuations and other security measures since columbine. we're not going to teach children to attack armed intruders and throw pencils and notebooks, but we do expect to have school staff trained on locking down, on evacuation procedures, working with law enforcement on active shooter drills and those are the things that are important. >> there's little defense against someone who's willing to die that arrives at a school with multiple firearms, body armor, and willing to kill anybody that gets in their way. but the real key is because you can't maybe stop that, you clearly can reduce the number of people injured or killed with proper movement, which is the result of training. >> there's no words that i can come up with that would even come close to describing the sheer terror of hearing that your son is in a place or your child is in a place where there's been violence. you don't know the details of that

high school opened the very next day. >> this rally represents a new beginning for columbine high school. >> reporter: columbine took four months to reopen after 12 people were gunned down and ten were injured. they demolished the library and replaced it with a sunny atrium. after a gunman killed 32 people at virginia tech, parts of campus went through extensive renovations and gradually reopened. but sandy hook is unprecedented, because the victims were so young. >> they make sense of things differently. they might be more clingy. they might regress more, so they might start sucking their thumb, for example. >> reporter: the new campus is being outfitted with a new security system. officials promised it will be the safest school in america. a pledge parents the use to reassure their children and themselves. for "nightline," i'm juju chang in newtown, connecticut. >>> coming up next, from selling off shares to stripping shelves, how this tragedy is changing the game, at least for now, for those who make, sell, and invest in the booming business of guns. [ male announcer ] red lobster's crabfest ends soon. hurry in and tr

the gunman killed 32 people, then shot and killed himself in 1999 in columbine high school two, studentsclassmates and a teacher before themselves in the school library. 26 others were wounded. >> as this tragedy unfolds stay with us for continuing coverage. you can receive urgent updates on your smart phone by down loading our free news app and opting for push note ficks. you can sign up on abc 7 news.com. page and on twitter on abc 7 to monitor this tragedy for and world news with diane sawyer will air a special broadcast on the tragedy tonight beginning right after this newscast at 5:30. >> moving on to other news, update on breaking news on the peninsula. police say the driver of the black volkswagon crashing into another vehicle on northbound i-280 has been arrested and will be charged with vehicular manslaughter. you're looking at live pictures of the scene. just a horrific crash. three people were killed. victims changing a tire in the that vehicles swag on. you can seu@[#ñ resulting traffc back up on 280 as a result of the crash. >> students back in class in cupper tino following

a reminder that there was an armed secured officer at the columbine high school in colorado. the day of that 1999 massacre and they say, controlling gun violence requires a package of solutions well beyond the schoolhouse door. miguel? >> so very many opinions on this. let's look at some front pages. one says he's a gun nut, from a conservative post. and "the new york daily news" headlined la pierre, the craziest man on earth. barbara, you know your way around washington, you know the political landscape there. how did what could only be described as a rant go over in your fair city? >> well i think one of the big questions right now, i think for the whole country, tragically, unbelievably, this newtown massacre. was this in fact the 9/11 moment, if you will for the issue of gun violence. has it fundamentally changed the american fabric of society. that is concerned about this issue. will that be enough to push the political landscape. senator dianne feinstein of course, democrat of california, very powerful within the democratic party. and the senate. she says she is going t

. >> they're the shoes he was wearing on april 20, 1999 when he was gunned down at columbine high school. >> reporter: one after the other. >> in memory of our 19-year-old daughter. >> reporter: dozens of relatives recited their stories. >> a.j. boyk was killed in the aurora theater shooting. >> reporter: every day in america, nearly this many families become new victims of gun violence. >> my son miraculously survived. >> reporter: andre's 8-year-old son bear was walking towards the principal's office in newtown. >> he says he saw bullets passing by. >> reporter: a teacher rescued him. >> she pulled him in her own classroom. >> reporter: now he says washington has to rescue america with sensible gun laws. >> it's not a partism issue. it's an issue of safety for our children. >> she takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids. >> that is insane. >> reporter: instead, the families suggest a solution might include a renewed ban on assault rifles and closing loopholes that allow 40% of gun sales to go through with no background check. >> i think about my sister

frank deangelis was the principal of columbine high school when the shooting happened. frank deangelis still is the principal there today. he said when he heard what happened in connecticut today, quote, it just made me sick to my stomach. it just takes me back to what we felt on april 20th, 1999. even though it's going to be 14 years, it just takes us back to that horrific day. and dave cullen, who wrote the definitive book on the columbine mass shooting, he said today, "in my head i have always insisted that any death is just as tragic. but little kids, this is overwhelming me." we're going to be covering the latest news out of newtown, connecticut this hour. and there is new news. law enforcement officers say that the weapons used in today's shootings were legally purchased by the gunman's mother. another victim believed to be the shooter's mother was found at a home nearby. also, we're told that the gunman's brother, who was briefly misidentified by authorities as the shooter himself, he was questioned by police today after being picked up in new jersey. the brother

and that's why, you know, ten years on, since columbine high school, there's really no template for beingto dissect this. other than we have to observe. and then when we sense that there's issues. we have to try to get children some help. >> you bring up a very good point. i think that's maybe of the solutions there. when you say most of us don't sit around and debrief our children. maybe we should every day. after school, how was your day, what did you do, how are you feeling. and in the morning, same thing. that may be part of the solution. thank you, joe navorro, we appreciate it. >> there's some developing news coming out of washington to tell you about. has house speaker john boehner come up with a proposal? the president and demoats can accept to avoid the fiscal cliff? we've got the details. dtd ♪ ♪ ...or you can get out there with your friends and actually share something. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our best values of the year. this is the pursuit of perfection. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this

the brady campaign to prevent gun violence and families of victims of the 1999 shooting at columbine high school. >> these people here before you, because they refuse to be statistics. they've been through hell and back. and they don't want it to happen to the rest of you. >> reporter: funerals began monday for the 20 children and six adults killed. tuesday, families said their final goodbyes to two more 6- year-olds. jessica ricos and james matioli. today the medical examiner is releasing new information about the suspected shooter and his mother saying at this point no one has claimed their bodies. he also says the mother was shot four times in the head, tori. while she was sleeping. >> all right, thank you in newtown connecticut, thank you. >>> and here in the bay area, there are several candlelight vigils scheduled for the victims in connecticut. tonight, in pleasanton, people will gather at the amrel park at 6:00. and tomorrow in fairfield, the vigil is planned at the sikh temple on rockville road at 5:00. anyone who attends is being encouraged to bring notes showing support for victims of

rachel was killed in the columbine high school mass cure.arryl, as a parent, all i can think of today is these parents out buying christmas gifts. kids at this age excited about santa claus and christmas is it coming, and now planning a funeral and no christmas or birthdays, how do you recover? you have been through this. >>> well, there is nothing you can tell a parent that lost the child. they need their friends and family. in our case, we made choices. we made the choice not to be angry and better but to celebrate rachel's life and today we have the largest school training programs and reach three million students a year with rachel's challenge and train over 300,000 children and school 500 suicides prevented. a lot of the answers are long term. they are not just a knee jerk reaction or more laws and regulations . but we have to be a kinder nation and take time to listen to one another and be role models in these kids. and you are active and in your healing, am i interperting it right. my son craig was in the library and he came within a

having armed guards at schools could help, but he notes there was an armed deputy sheriff at columbine high school in colorado more than a decade ago. he was unable to stop the killing of 13 people by two heavily armed students. studies show that security measures can make students feel less safe, according to school psychologist eric rossen. >> the cues given are that there is a reason to be afraid that there is a danger and risk for violence here. >> reporter: desiree used to be an n.r.a. supporter, and now she's not so sure, but her daughter likes the fact that newtown decided to station an officer at her school. >> when i told her there would be a police officer when she goes back on january 2, she said, "well, that makes me feel safe." >> reporter: the n.r.a.'s proposal to put an armed officer in every school across the nation would take one of every seven police officers on the streets on school days, according to an analysis put out today by the reuters news agency. >> axelrod: the n.r.a. president david keene will be bob schieffer's guest tomorrow on "face the nation," along with republica

already have armed security and it's interesting to note an armed deputy sheriff was assigned to columbine high school near denver in 1999 but failed to stop that attack that killed 13. >> pelley: chip, thank you very much. of course, the best thing is to prevent a mass shooting and the united states secret service has spent years studying assassins and school shooters in order to do just that. brian vossekuil and robert fein wrote two studies for the secret service and they told us in an interview for "60 minutes" that gunmen often leave a lot of clues about their intentions. >> strong key to prevention is to encourage those with information to come forward and to report it. and in almost every instance that we looked at there were such people that along the pathway that the attacker traveled people became aware of some of the behavior that included acquisition of a weapon or planning or surveillance and they also became aware that the person was acting in a manner that would cause concern, that he was distressed about something. >> people who engaged in these attacks took a series of actions as in o

when he was gunned down at columbine high school. it is amazing we have the same size shoes. soy wear them because he was a member of the debate team at columbine high school. so i now wear his shoes in this great debate. it's a debate that we need to have in this country. we've had that debate in the year 2000, the year after columbine. legislators refused to close the gun show loophole in colorado so we took it to the vote of the people and the people closed that gun show loophole by a vote of 70% to 30%. that same night in oregon, 60% to 40% system of americans will step up when their elected officials don't and vote for reasonable gun laws. we can't put every measure, we can't put every measure before a vote. we have to be able to count on our elected officials. to do that for us. as we are doing here today. it would be easy to be discoloneled, for me to be discurmed after 13 years of this activity. easy to be discouraged. but i can't be. because i have hope. because these people have hope also. that we can do something to change it. these people here before you because th

head of schools says the school may see a renovation like columbine high school saw after the 1999 massacre÷ funerals, mourners talked about love of animals and tacos. he and his twin sister celebrated their birthdays last month. she was in another classroom and survived. >> newtown community buried another 6-year-old boy today, jack pinto abc 7 news is live in that deaf stated small town. the young new york giants fan was remembered today. laura? hi, dan. i'm in the center of sandy hook here this, is the village this, is also become the center piece for a growing public memorial here as you can see. thousands of flowers, stuffed animals and folks from around the area and country have come theer pay respects. just a short distance from there is a private service for a young boy clearly who was dearly loved by his family and friends. >> as the hearse pulled into a funeral home, first of the services for the sandy hook victims was underway. among mourners families with children. many considered the energetic first grader among their best friends. >> he likes to play and stuff. >> services wil

beside columbine high school, a striking permanent memorial was opened in 2007 with names of the dead's a symbol of the healing, and i think of the community coming together. getting behind this. >> reporter: but while the memorial offers healing, each new massacre brings new pain. >> i cannot deny that it brings it back, and that i have to deal with it. i do have to deal with it. >> reporter: even after 13 years. >> after 13 years. this will be for the rest of my life. i know that. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, little ton, colorado. >> you spent ten years researching the massacre for the book "columbine." i'm pleased to have you here. >> thanks, charlie. >> people are rushing in trying to find motive, asking can, hwh can this happen, we often get it wrong. >> we often get it wrong. after columbine, three days later, we had it figured out. we, the media, public, everyone understand key things. >> you were there. >> yes, yes, i was there from the first afternoon. and at this point we had it all figured out. we knew that they were outcast, loner goths from the tr

ask my parents who lost their child at columbine high school nearly 14 years ago. away. the man who led his students and staff through the columbine tragedy, principal frank deangulus, still leads that school today and joins us live if colorado. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> steve: when you heard the news friday what, did you think? >> not again. got sick to my stomach and as details came in, i think everybody in the columbine community was retraumatized because what happened, even though it's been 14 years ago. >> steve: yeah. >> brian: does it show us that we didn't learn anything from what you guys went through or does it show that some of the security measures in place show there is more of a general awareness now because of your tragedy of you guys? >> i think there were lessons learned. it was my hope after april 20, 1999, that the students who lost their life and the teacher who lost his life at columbine high school would not die in vain. i know there have been security measures that were imcompleted as a result of columbine high school. bu

that at columbine high school.arles whitman, the engineering student and forger marine who killed 13 people and an unborn child and wounded 32 others in a shooting rampage from the tower of the university of texas. that was on august 1, 1966. his murderous rampage caught on tv camera. >> gregg: newtown, connecticut is a tight-knit community and how some of those who call the town home are speaking out about what happened and what it will take to get through this. >> yesterday he said my school is dead. the kids are still -- he said no, mom. the school is dead. mrs. hochsprung isn't going to be there and we'll all know when we go to school. so if my school for me is dead. i think in his way, it's never going to be the same. >> we are all a quiet little town that nothing ever happens. now suddenly we're in the record books, not because someone won the lottery last week, but for something else. >> we know so many people. i can't go to the grocery store without meeting people that might know and i just can't imagine wh

>> on april 20th, 1999, the nation was horrified at television images of high school students running for their lives at columbinel. two students shot 12 students and one teacher to death and wounded 24 other brothers fat fatally shooting themselves. the man who was columbine's principal that day is still principal today. >> here to provide all of the support they need. the message i would like to send to them is they are not in this alone. >> denver now has detailed diagrams for all of the schools and has taken steps to limit access points for better security. he doesn't think gun control or tougher laws will prevent mass killing. >> might be an unfortunate truth. lisa argin with the forecast. cold outside. >> it is cold. we have rain that will be developing through out the day and the afternoon. if you are head the out this morning we have temperatures as low as freezing. with rain developing we have an interesting forecast. >> bay area students write letters to santa not for what they want for christmas. these letters are to help make wishlivermore. >> good morning everyone. thank you for joining us. we are co

the nation was horrified with television images of high school students running for their lives at columbinehigh school in denver. two students shot other students and one teacher killing them injuring 21 others before fatally shooting themselves. the principal of columbine is still the principal today. >> my advice to them is they are not in this alone. >> denver now has detailed diagrams for all of the schools and has taken steps to limit access points for better security. he does not think gun control or tougher law also not prevent mass killings. we have the forecast which we need to keep a close eye on. >> that's right. we have light rain headed our way. right now dry and cold. in fact from our east bay camera you can see the pretty clouds out there. the areas at producing temperatures well below freezing in some spots. i will explain and when the rain arrives next coming up. >> thank you, lisa. bay area students write letters to santa. they are not asking what they want for christmas the letters a little rendezvous.♪ ♪that special something that will carry you through...♪ ♪that little

by april 1999 after the massacre at columbine high school in littleton, colorado, left 12 students and issue of school violence had become a national issue. just two months after the shooting, u.s. secret service and the department of education initiated a report on school violence, and in 2002 they released the safe school initiative implications for the prevention of school attacks in the united states. it looked at 37 incidents of targeting school shootings in the u.s. dating back to 1974. it asked could we have 9/11 that these attacks were being planned and what can be done to prevent future attacks from occurring. the increased awareness, however, didn't stop school shootings. students were shot and killed on an indian reservation in 2005 a one-room amish classroom in 2006, and the campus of virginia tech in 2007. just this year three died at a high school shooting in ohio. ken trump is the president of the national school and safety and security services and an expert on school violence. he joins us from cleveland this morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> let me start. as s

today to stop school shootings has already been tried in many places across america, including columbine high school, where 13 years ago 12 students and one teacher were shot dead. columbine had an armed sheriff's deputy at the school every day and every day prior to that. but when the moment came, the deputy could do something to stop the mass murderers. there was a good guy with a gun in the parking lot in tucson when the madman there opened fire on gabrielle giffords and the men and women and children in the parking lot. but the good guy with the gun could do nothing to stop what was happening because he realized he could not get off a clean shot. a shot that he couldn't be sure would not kill one of the innocent bystanders. he said that gun and ammunition perpetuates the notion that one more gun law and one more law imposed on peaceful, lawful people will protect us. so there is wayne lapierre saying that he is opposed to anymore laws. not one more law, not a law banning the 100 round ammunition drum that was used in the colorado movie theater. not a law banning the 30-round ammunition magazines

and we remember in 1999 at columbine high school, two students opened firing, killing 12 classmates anda teacher before killing themselves. 26 others were wounded. >> it's been a harrowing scene in newtown, connecticut all day. we're also hearing life saving stories. >> abc fwhus reporter mark glennblatt joins frus sandy hook elementary school with more. >> we have new information. sources now telling us that this rampage all began at the mother -- the gunman's mother's home, he went there, apparently pulled out a gun, shot her in the face, then went over to sandy hook elementary school with a bulletproof vest on, pulling out another gun and began can z.continue that had rampage there, firing at any young child cosee. we're hearing that the gunshots began after some kind of an altercation at theky,g school with the principal at that school this, is really turned out to be an almost unfathomable tragedy for this very, very peaceful town in western connecticut. >> now, we've been hearing reports of just how heroic some teachers were, locking kids in bathrooms. what can you talk to bus tha

and then every three months after columbine high school in 2000, they have to -- every three months put that plan into place. the school superintendent, the school administrators have to work with local law enforcement every three months. sort of like a fire drill to implement the plan to ensure -- >> -- i understand that these children actually had gone through some of the fire drills and they had done that. but the issue of safety and the threat assessment, i mean, does the federal government mandate that every school have a threat assessment done regarding safety? >> well, i think there is some sort of a mandate. and i'm not really familiar with how heavy that mandate is. but i think given the atmosphere. it's a public mandate. you have to have a threat assessment in each school. >> judge jeanine: who decides, chief, how much safety is implemented at a particular school. >> i think it depends on the school district. it depends on the law enforcement and the design of the school. how old the schools are. >> judge jeanine: it's really the locals who decide this? >> it comes down from t

and then every three months after columbine high school in 2000, they have to -- every three months puthat plan into place. the school superintendent, the school administrators have to work with local law enforcement every three months. sort of like a fire drill to implement the plan to ensure -- >> -- i understand that these children actually had gone through some of the fire drills and they had done that. but the issue of safety and the threat assessment, i mean, does the federal government mandate that every school have a threat assessment done regarding safety? >> well, i think there is some sort of a mandate. and i'm not really familiar with how heavy that mandate is. but i think given the atmosphere. it's a public mandate. you have to have a threat assessment in each school. >> judge jeanine: who decides, chief, how much safety is implemented at a particular school. >> i think it depends on the school district. it depends on the law enforcement and the design of the school. how old the schools are. >> judge jeanine: it's really the locals who decide this? >> it comes down from the

our children as evident by the fact that armed guards weren't enough to stop the tragedy at columbine high school. the nra's response is pathetic and completely unacceptable. >> it was one week ago today that 26 people were massacred at that elementary school in newtown. >> dawn hochsprung, principal. [bell toll] >> bells rang out at connecticut at 9:30 east coast time. the names of the 20 children and six school employees who were killed were read allow followed by bell tolls. a church in newtown also rang its bell 26 times. there was an unlined moment of silence. some major websites went dark for a minute and posted green ribbons to remember those lost. companies taking part included aol, the huffington post and adobe. this coincided with a moment of silence across social media sites. over 100,000 people pledged not to tweet or post to facebook during that moment of silence. >> san jose police are investigating a deadly stabbing that happened at app office party. just before 3:00 a.m. at an insurance office. the male victim was attending a graduation party when he was stabbed at least once. he'

. >> after the massacre at columbine high school in littleton, colorado, in 1999, schools started implementingtronger safety measures. i want to bring in ken. come in here now. the president of the national school safety and community services, does training and consulting on school safety and emergency preparedness. at the sandy hook elementary, i want it show you this, teachers, staff, students had been briefed on how to handle a lockdown situation. a security system was introduced this year for visitors to ring a bell, sign in and perhaps produce a photo i.d. after 9:30 a.m., the doors were locked. what, if anything, could have been done to prevent this tragedy if they had that in place? >> that type of systems is fairly common for elementary schools across the country and any type of technology is a deterrent for those who can be deterred, a delay for others possibly but it's not foolproof. we tend to rely heavily on technology. we're hearing calls now about metal detectors. do we need that in the school. i see we need mental detectors rather than metal detectors. metal detector, doesn't g

beginning with columbine high school in littleton colorado in 1999. 12 students and a teacher are murdered24 more are injured by classmates harris and clebo. >> nobody was scared of these people. >> no we are in the bushes for barbs for god's sake. this was a safe place. >> geraldo: a witness hearing eric yelling go, go. >> at first i didn't know it was real until i seen one mich friends laying there in some blood. >> armed with pipe bombs and semiautomatic particular the pair targeting anyone and everyone. after 49 agonizing minutes it ends with the suicides of both in the school's library. in april of 2002, robert steinhauser, a 19-year-old expelled from his school in jearnl opens fire, killing 13 teachers. two former classmates and a policeman. doning a black ninja style outfit which has become the uniform of choice for niece lunatics this gown man targets teamers reportedly as revenge for his recent expulsion. five years later back on our shores the campus of virginia tech is the scene of the worst ever slaughter by a single gunman on a school campus in u.s. history. >> he opened our d

rachel was killed in the columbine high school mass cure. as a parent, all i can think of today is these parents out buying christmas gifts. kids at this age excited about santa claus and christmas is it coming, and now planning a funeral and no christmas or birthdays, how do you recover? you have been through this. >>> well, there is nothing you can tell a parent that lost the child. they need their friends and family. in our case, we made choices. we made the choice not to be angry and better but to celebrate rachel's life and today we have the largest school training programs and reach three million students a year with rachel's challenge and train over 300,000 children and school 500 suicides prevented. a lot of the answers are long term. they are not just a knee jerk reaction or more laws and regulations . but we have to be a kinder nation and take time to listen to one another and be role models in these kids. and you are active and in your healing, am i interperting it right. my son craig was in the library and he came within a split

beginning with columbine high school in littleton colorado in 1999. 12 students and a teacher are murdered. 24 more are injured by classmates harris and clebo. >> nobody was scared of these people. >> no we are in the bushes for barbs for god's sake. this was a safe place. >> geraldo: a witness hearing eric yelling go, go. >> at first i didn't know it was real until i seen one mich friends laying there in some blood. >> armed with pipe bombs and semiautomatic particular the pair targeting anyone and everyone. after 49 agonizing minutes it ends with the suicides of both in the school's library. in april of 2002, robert steinhauser, a 19-year-old expelled from his school in jearnl opens fire, killing 13 teachers. two former classmates and a policeman. doning a black ninja style outfit which has become the uniform of choice for niece lunatics this gown man targets teamers reportedly as revenge for his recent expulsion. five years later back on our shores the campus of virginia tech is the scene of the worst ever slaughter by a single gunman on a school campus in u.s. history. >> he opened our

but there are also many voices saying that in colorado this afternoon, the principal of columbine high school, which has seen it's share of tragedy, said that he wanted the families in connticut to know that >> i think that what all of are feeling now as a partent, as a grandparent, as an educator we are just imagining what it must be like for those people so our thoughts and prayers are there. >> here in california, governor jerry brown released a statement today saying, "we all mourn the heartbreaking loss of those elementary. we pray for their families and loved ones." in conneticut, governor dan malloy spoke of the tragic reality of what has happened. >> you can never be prepared for this kind of incident. what has happened and transpired at that school building will leave a mark on this community and every family impacted. >> along with messages of comfort, there were also calls for more to be done to prevent this from happening again. former astraunt, and husband of congresswoman gabriel giffords, mark kelly said today that "this time our response must consist of more than regret, sorro

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the massacre at columbine high school should have been a wake-up call. shootings on school campuses have increased over the past 13 years. this february a teenager fired into a cafeteria in chadron, ohio. this morning's shooting is one of many horrible tragedies. these are the worst in our history, and all of them have happened since columbine. a man gunned down 32 students at virginia tech back in 2007. a teen took a gun to school and killed nine people in minnesota. teens died at the school shooting in michigan. and five children were gunned down at a amish school in pennsylvania. but here is the most stunning number of them all. there have been 181 major school shootings in the united states since the columbine massacre. 181 shootings where students were either wounded or killed. many of the school shootings involved teenagers. in los angeles last year, a teenager snuck a loaded beretta into class. the gun went off and wounded two other students. but young children are victims too. in houston last year, a 6-year-old took a loaded handgun to school. the

. >> reporter: de angelis and others here at columbine high school say you don't get over this kind of tragedy, scott, the scars are forever. >> pelley: you know, barry, we were talking to nancy cordes earlier. i was wondering, is there any talk in colorado about changing gun laws there? >> reporter: indeed. if you look at this morning's "denver post", the headline is about colorado's governor john hicken looper who says may it is time to rethink gun laws. he said this before today's events and in reference to the aurora theater massacre. but when you have a western governor who says something like this it's going to add fuel to the whole gun control debate. >> pelley: barry, thanks very much. here in newtown, the community tonight is remembering the victims of the deadly shooting at sandy hook elementary school. a candlelight vigil is being held at st. rosa's catholic church to begin the healing process. some of the victims were part of you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. newto

the brady campaign to prevent gun violence and families of victims of the 1999 shooting at columbine high school. >> these people here before you because they refuse to be statistics. they don't want it to happen to the rest of you. >> reporter: more details have emerged. connecticut's medical examiner says nancy lanza was shot in the head four times while she slept. adam lanza is believed to have shot himself in the head. in newtown, connecticut. >> new information now from the nra, the national rifle association broke its silence with a statement about the killings. the group said that nra members were quote, shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders. the nra has said it's offering meaningful contributions to make sure this never happens again. >> bay area state senator introduced a bill that would close major loopholes in california's assault weapons ban. the bill is similar to one last year that prohibits semiautomatic weapons. it will require yearly registration and backgrounds checks. a second bill will make it a requirement that store weapons have

there's someone right now planning something nor bigger and devastating than what happened at columbine high school and sadly enough, he's right. there was a 20 minutes time span when i saw the two little girls and saw my sister and those were the worst 20 minutes of my life and i can't put it into words. >> a town and a nation reeling from the heart breaking shooting in newtown, connecticut. a long and intense investigation is underway, searching for answers what would cause someone to shoot up a school killing 26 people, so many of them children. >> and just this morning, authorities are saying that gunman adam lanza wasn't voluntarily let inside the school, but rather, he forced his way armed with multiple weapons and now town officials are saying the principal was killed trying to stop lanza and saying they have quote, good evidence in this case. hello, i'm uma pemmaraju. >> kelly: and i'm kelly wright and we begin a special edition of america's news headquarters which begins right now and we'll go right to newtown, connecticut. state police there wrapping up a press conference just a short tim