By James Anderson, AP A judge on Friday sentenced a former student to life in prison without parole for a 2019 shooting inside a suburban Denver high school that killed one teenager and injured eight others, telling the defendant he had shown no remorse and had failed to help a devastated community understand his actions. Devon Erickson, … Read more
From the Associated Press . . . One of the suspects in a fatal attack at a suburban Denver high school in 2019 had become such a chronic drug user in the months before the shooting that he likely “couldn’t think, concentrate or understand” events around him that day, a toxicologist called by the defense … Read more
When you have students who don’t want to be politicized and shooters who don’t fit the preconceived profile of what every mass shooter should be, the talking heads and satellite trucks seem to lose interest and move on awfully quickly. Strange, isn’t it? None of this falls in line with what the shooter is supposed … Read more
David French at National Review has written a great piece, The Hero Solution to the Mass-Shooting Contagion. In short, he recommends we remember the heroes from these tragedies, not the evil-doers. I couldn’t agree more. It’s why I go out of my way not to mention the names of spree killers. If I quote a news story, … Read more
As we’ve said, time and again, the true story behind mass shootings takes days, weeks, or even months to come out. Which is why the keyboard commandos who jump onto Twitter and other platforms to instantly blame guns, the NRA or even the President are nothing more than rank opportunists out to further their own … Read more
As is always the case in these situations, it can take days or even longer to unravel exactly what happened in the wake of a high profile shooting. Facts tend to trickle out slowly and many initial reports turn out to be false. It took weeks to months before the full picture of the utter … Read more
Whenever a high-profile shooting happens in this country, the pig-pile of anti-gun politicization takes about seven seconds to get under way. It’s usually up to full speed long before facts are known or the bodies are cold. Just watch Twitter to get a feel for the nauseating breadth of it all, if you can stomach it. … Read more
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