Right before the 2000’s started, in 1999, one of the deadliest school shootings occurred. The Columbine High School massacre happened on April 20, 1999. The shooting killed 15 people and injured 21 others. This event shocked the whole world and arguments over gun control laws soared even higher. After this event, in 1999 the “Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act of 1999” was passed. This act had almost 26 different titles, one of the many titles was the “Juvenile Justice Reform” the reform said it “Authorizes a juvenile to be prosecuted and convicted as an adult for an offense that is properly joined under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure with a Federal offense that is a serious violent felony or serious drug offense, or that is a conspiracy or attempt to commit such offense. Permits conviction of a lesser offense”(congress.gov). This was just one of the different reforms this Act brought about. There are many more titles in this act, but those are some of the most important. To sum up the act, it basically made it so minors could be released as if they were adults, this made it so that all the juveniles that were carrying out these shootings were finally able to be judged
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