Columbine Dad: We Reach Out To Kids Who Are Loners, Who Are Potentially the Ones Who Could Be a School Shooter

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SCOTT: "I told my wife several days ago before this meeting that I -- it just feels like something is different about this school shooting than any of the others. And I am optimistic there will be some changes. A lot of focus is on the gun control issue. Our focus over the last 19 years has been on the climate and culture of the school and we have a program called Rachel's challenge that has reached over 28 million students and teachers in schools in the last 19 years. We have a team of 50 presenters and trainers that go into schools. We have seen 7 school shootings prevented within we see an average about 3 suicides prevented every single week. So we do know that there is a multitude of answer that is need to be looked at, not just one. And our focus has been more on culture and climate changes. And we have seen a lot of progress with that. As far as we know there hasn't been a school shooting in any of the 20,000 schools that we have been a part of. And we hope there never will be. And we want to get the message out more and more that if we can learn to connect with one another, and we create -- we create service clubs in the school that reach out to the kids that are loners, kids that are potentially the ones that could be a school shooter. We have seen seven of those young people turn in guns and prevent the school shooting from happening."