Columbine Students Campaign To Use Photos Of People Killed

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Ed Andrieski

When we talk about gun control, we often argue that anti-gun activists operate on pure emotion. They can’t argue with facts because far too often for their liking the facts work against them.

So, they use emotion. They want an emotional response because it’s their best hope for ginning up popular support for gun control.

Now, a campaign is underway designed to help elicit such an emotional response.

There’s been a national push in recent years to erase the names of gunmen who commit mass shootings from the public sphere. But now a group of Columbine High School students are leading an effort to spread photos of their horrific acts to influence the conversation around gun control.

The #MyLastShot campaign, launched this week, asks school students to sign a pledge asking that if they are ever killed in a mass shooting, the graphic photo of their death be shared across social media.

“We hope to spark conversation around the truly horrific realities around gun violence,” said Kaylee Tyner, a 17-year-old senior at Columbine. “This project is a pretty controversial one, but that’s because it truly makes people uncomfortable with the realities of gun violence. And that’s our goal. Gun violence …Read the Rest

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