The Columbine High School massacre has officially claimed another life - nearly 26 years after the US mass shooting.

The death last month of Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was left partially paralysed by two gunshot wounds in the attack, has been ruled a homicide by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.

On 16 February this year, the 43-year-old woman died in her Denver home of sepsis - a reaction to infection.

And complications from the paralysis were a “significant contributing factor” in her death, forensic pathologist Dr Dawn B Holmes wrote in a 13-page post-mortem report.

Dr Holmes ruled that “the manner of death is best classified as homicide”.

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    There is no analogue that is more true than the effect of that shooting still being felt today.

    And how far have we come…? That’s a rhetorical question.

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    26 years later and how successful have they been at preventing school shootings and gun violence?

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            When republicans are in charge

            F*ck school shooting, republicans don’t care about children, weapons are harmful for our society, we should be harder on weapons permits and shit

            When democrats are in charge (or near election time)

            Let’s not talk about the 2nd amendment it’s divisive and not productive we need to find workaround in the hypothetical future maybe we can “ban” military grade weapons to shut up the inconvenients (+ lots of blabla about non existent things)

            keep on the good joke rather than acting and doing anything productive… Ah my bad, I’m too harsh, you guys atleast succeeded at securing abortion or trans rights… oh… wait…

            Stop deflecting, own your culture and what it stands for, it’s the only way forward.

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        Or starve, or get measles, or raped, or pregnant, or molested by clergy, or worked to death, or are housed, or…

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          How did the democrats secured Roe vs Wade when they were in charge again?

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            Tell me again when the Democrats had all 3 branches of government again? Oh yeah, a couple months during Obama’s first term.

            Go 🌻🌻🌻

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              Why didn’t Obama secured the Supreme Court, he had the opportunity? Oh yeah… DeCoRuM. Keep deflecting, but the truth is that the US political system is sick, continue playing ball and you will never know freedom before it’s too late.

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                You’re going to accuse him of deflecting when you’re trying to blame Democrats for the actions of Republicans?

                Yeah, fuck off with that.

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                  Republicans are inherently anti-democracy since the civil war… How about acting on it rather than promoting decorum and false promises my friend? How about doing something? You guys act fast when it comes to swaying the blame away yet never offer any self reflection or any constructive criticism, it’s actually boring. On this thread I’ve been insulted twice just for stating some facts, may I remind you trumpster is president of the US?

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                It’s true that the political system is sick, but blaming Obama for it is 100% bullshit. How the fuck would he have “secured the Supreme Court?” How would that have worked?

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                  Do you remember the weakness throughout the Garland nomination? The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was made by a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice Roberts supporting the Mississippi law but not agreeing to overturn Roe entirely, if Garland would had replace Scalia there was next to no chance to totally repeal it. Let’s say it was an exceptional and unprecedented move by the GOP under Obama, after the first trump term, Biden was elected, leak showed the SC to be almost entirely corrupt, he never acted on it, because dEcOrUm.

                  The protest were… not european like, to say the least. The american are numbs to what is happening to them but sure keep on deflecting whenever you have the occasion that will save the country.

                  Edit: I’m 100% against the GOP, no demonstration of their bad faith is needed anymore but it is necessary to hold democrats accountable to the fatal errors they have been committing and I never blamed entirely Obama he just shares the blame.

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            How convenient…

            Edit: When you’re debating with someone and they resort to call you mentally ill, it does say something about the nature of what they are trying to defend. Food for thought.