Friend,

My name is Kaylee, I’m a former Team ENOUGH Executive Council member and a proud Coloradan. But the high school I attended needs no introduction: Columbine.

The shooting at Columbine was the worst school shooting in United States history — in 1999. My high school’s name is one that people still remember to this day, but now, school shootings have become a strange normality. In the 26 years since, there have been literally hundreds of school shootings, some even more deadly than Columbine. 

Just last week, we witnessed multiple school shootings incidents across the nation, when a gunman opened fire on Florida State University and killed two people and when a student at a high school in Dallas injured multiple people after he opened fire at his school. 

Columbine should have been the end of school shootings, instead they became the norm and too many Americans have become numb to them – when will enough be enough?

I’m asking you to honor the victims and survivors of Columbine with action today, friend: Will you add your name to Brady’s petition to lawmakers to stop school shootings and finally protect kids from gun violence?

Columbine changed everything — marked the start of a new generation of American students, the “lockdown generation” — one for whom lockdowns, shelter in place orders, and active shooter drills are standard. I experienced multiple drills and real lockdowns in my time at Columbine High School, preparing for a violence that felt inevitable. 

But, friend, we have a chance to make a new generation safe from gun violence in their schools. We can remember and move forward. 

My classmates and I have grown up with the trauma of what happened — like too many other schools. It’s deeply personal to me to fight every day to end school shootings and save young lives. I don't want another school or community to endure what mine did. But deadly shootings like these will keep happening unless all of us demand accountability for decades of inaction. In honor of those we lost at Columbine and to keep fighting for those we can save, I'm counting on you to add your name right now:

Sign the petition: Tell Congress to take action to stop school shootings.

Kaylee Tyner
Columbine High School Class of 2019