Liz Carlston - Columbine Survivor 

Michelle, I so agree. We become so consumed with the body count, but we just do not stop to think about the trauma of surviving. This horrific day defined that generation of Columbine students, and they had to take a journey to be able to decide what that would be. It leaves God smacked that they are now in their late thirties and are still having to come to peace with this. The thought haunts me.

It would have caused more damage possibly killing or wounding all the students who were in the lunchroom

Lolz

@@teonnaa5740 What idiots they were pathetic that they tried to bomb

She said at the beginning of the video that she works in marketing I believe

She probably works in sales part of marketing which is why she’s so articulate

I've watched a lot of the survivors talk , and most of them are very articulate , I think they've talked to the media and the public for s long they mastered it

Mormons talk like that often.

God isn’t real. Gods are man made as a coping mechanism because humans are terrified of death and so believing that heaven exists and that there is a God who looks over them offers comfort to them. This “god” is more evil than all the dictators that ever lived combined. And he isn’t real. WAKE UP, it’s 2022

What was strange is, they let athletes go, and shot innocent kid's. They wanted to kill the whole school. Everyone was responsible for their misery. The were going to kill anyone that got in their way.

This was the first major school shooting in modern times. There was no protocol in place for an "active shooter" situation. Once the shooters entered the library, the poor souls in there became "sitting ducks". The tables were the only solid hope of being any kind of deflection or shield. I am pretty sure the teacher on the phone and speaking to 911 was not even a librarian, but had ducked into the library to warn all the students there.

There was a door in the library to go outside, I’m pretty sure it was propped open the whole time.

There was a group of kids that wore trench coats as part of their thing, so it was probably a normal thing to see. Also we had a "smoking dock" at our school until sometime in the 90's.

Colorado April weather is pretty bipolar honestly though.

The 90’s were so much different - all of this was COMPLETELY normal then, at all high schools

They always wore their trench coats, that doesn't mean anyone would expect them to come to school with bombs and guns. Also I remember sitting outside my school smoking while talking about this tragedy. It was a different time then.

I graduated H.S. in 1997. The students had a designated smoking area outside. It was a fairly normal thing back then.

Her school had a mass shooting that she was evacuated from. Just because she didn't know the details at the time doesn't mean that it wasn't traumatizing after the fact when she found out what was going on. Her coach was murdered. Her sister witnessed murders which would have an effect on their whole family. This event had an effect on her whole community. She was a child who went to school, a supposed safe place, and had her sense of safety shattered. Just because she didn't experience the same trauma that others did, does not make the trauma she experienced any less. No one can dictate how another perceives trauma. Also survivors guilt is real and it sounds like she's experienced that to some degree.

@@Littleone124 Laughing and smiling doesn't say trauma to me. Giving interviews doesn't say trauma. If she's traumatised, then so am I.

@@kingatheist7231 you need to remember this happened 20 years ago. Was she not supposed to laugh or smile for 20 years because she experienced a traumatic event? She likely has had years of therapy and possibly meds to help get her where she is today.

@@Littleone124 No that's not what I'm saying. As someone who has had trauma themselves, I can see when someone is playing on it. My point was, as far as she says, she wasn't even there. Sure it affected her. Of course it did. It was her school. Her friends etc. Maybe that fucked her up. I don't know. But to say she was traumatised from the shooting is a real insult to all those real victims who were there.

You’re being a hypocrite. Telling her what to feel when you probably weren’t even alive when this happened. You don’t know shit Yet are entitled enough to think you get a say in what trauma is and isn’t. Sounds about white to me.