Use the power of this event to change your life for the better. Having a daughter who attends another high school near the site of the almost unspeakable bloodshed, I was reminded of the cold hard fact that this could happen to anyone at anytime. The randomness of life plays no favorites. When we ask ourselves how something like this could have happened, we must ask if we, as a society, are willing to accept these events as part of the price to pay for allowing certain freedoms such as the de-valuing of life, the glorification of violence in movies, the reinforcement of an attitude that death, killing, and suicide are a viable alternative as some music lyrics say, and the breakdown of values in the most important element of society, the family. The blurring of right and wrong to shades of gray does not create a solid foundation to live life with today's pressures.
Situational ethics can create situational nightmares.
We now have an excellent opportunity to take action and make things better. Friends by Michael W. Smith was originally written around 1982 about the same time many of the Columbine students were born.