In the Facebook photo, the girl is wearing a T-shirt of the German band KMFDM. The teenage shooters in the 1999 Columbine school massacre in Colorado were known to be avid fans of the band, and one of the killers posted the band’s lyrics on his website.
At the time, KMFDM issued a statement condemning the Columbine attack, expressing sympathy for the victims and affirming its music was intended to stand against violence.
School shootings have become a near-daily occurrence in the United States, with 322 of them this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. That is the second-highest annual total since 1966, exceeded only by last year’s 349.
The repeated violence has fueled the debate over gun control in the US But efforts to tighten firearm laws have made little progress in Congress, where Republicans argue that such limits would violate the US Constitution’s guarantee of the right to bear arms.
Source: CNA
