Evergreen School Shooting Victims Remain Hospitalized

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Last Wednesday was another blood-soaked day in the United States of America.   At 12:23 p.m. a prominent rightwing social media influencer was gunned down during an outdoor speaking event at a university in Utah, and exactly one minute later,  at Evergreen High School in the Denver (Colorado) metropolitan area,  a shooting occurred which gravely wounded two students.

In both cases the shooters were young white males whom authorities describe as having been "radicalized."

The shooter in Utah was a 22-year-old man who grew up in a conservative religious family that had a strong affinity toward guns.  He was apparently well-trained in the use of firearms and managed to strike his target in the throat at around two hundred yards with a single shot from a bolt-action rifle.  The state's governor is describing him as having been radicalized, though specifics on how and by whom have not been released - and have only been speculated upon.

The shooter in Colorado was a 16-year-old boy whose social media posts contained white supremacist content and anti-semitic views, some containing photos of people in Nazi uniforms.   He also seemed to have had a fascination with mass shootings.  The Colorado shooter used a revolver which he reloaded multiple times as he was firing randomly both outside and inside of the high school during the lunch hour.  He managed to hit one student outside and one inside.  Both are in serious condition and remain hospitalized six days later.  The young shooter then shot himself and died later that day at a local hospital.

The political shooting in Utah brought a firestorm of outrage from the highest offices in the land along with quick retribution toward anyone who posted or expressed views in any manner that was not effusive in praise of the victim.  Sunday night there was a prayer vigil for the political influencer at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and funeral services are expected to be at the professional football stadium in Glendale, Arizona, next Sunday.

Political shootings in America are too common and have been since the 1960's.  Late this past June a lone gunman in Minnesota entered the homes of two legislators, killing one legislator and her husband and seriously wounding the other legislator and his wife.  Two months later there was a shooting at a Catholic School nearby to where the political shootings had occurred, and two students were killed in that shooting.

School shootings are insanely common in America.

A school shooting database for grades K-12 maintained by researcher David Riedman shows 2,981 school shooting incidents since 1966, with 855 deaths from those shootings.

Those victims are also deserving of a prayer vigil in some venue of national prominence with national leaders in attendance.

Just saying . . .