Beth Nimmo lost her young daughter Rachel in the shooting at Columbine High School, which took place about 13 years ago. Nimmo's son survived the horror, but she told Megyn Kelly on Friday's America Live that it tookMONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999 changed the way law enforcement is trained in Alabama and across the country. Alabama was one of the first states to implement ALERRT, Advance Law Enforcement RapidABC News reports that there have been 31 school shootings in the US since Columbine in 1999, when 13 people were killed. The rate of people killed by guns in the US is 19.5 times higher than similar high-income countries in the world. In the last 30Scott started Rachel's Challenge more than ten years ago after his 17-year-old daughter Rachel Scott was the first student killed during the Columbine High School shootings. During our interview, we asked him how events like this can be prevented andTime will tell what will come in the wake of the Newtown shooting, but Columbine was a cultural earthquake and in the hysteria that followed sent Republican leaders in a panic. It was a panic that nearly led to the GOP restricting gun rights—not the
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