One in five Colorado high school students say they have easy access to firearms

Insane. You would think things would change for the better since Columbine. The opposite has happened:
One in five Colorado high school students say it is "sort of easy" or "very easy" to access a handgun, a study found. New research, published Monday in The Journal of Pediatrics, analyzed 2019 data collected in Colorado as part of the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey -- an anonymous survey of more than 46,500 high school students in the state. As part of a larger survey, the students were asked "If you wanted to get a handgun, how easy would it be for you to get one?"

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