One Dead, Eight Wounded In Colorado School Shooting

By Tom Knighton

Ever since the Aurora theater shooting several years ago, Colorado has been on an anti-gun slide. In fairness, it wasn’t just the theater shooting. It was the fact that it was the second major mass shooting in their state that probably set people off. I get that. I also get the desire to do something, anything, to try and prevent shootings.

On Tuesday, we found out that their efforts failed to stop yet another mass shooting.

Last month, as the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting approached, STEM School Highlands Ranch joined hundreds of schools near Denver in closing temporarily amid security concerns. The anniversary came and went, and schools returned to their routines.

But on Tuesday afternoon, the STEM school’s worst fears were realized when nine of its students were shot, one fatally, and two fellow students were being held as suspects.

“We know two individuals walked into the STEM school, got deep inside the school and engaged students in two separate locations,” Sheriff Tony Spurlock of Douglas County said at a news conference.

At 6:45 p.m., about five hours after the shooting, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office released a statement confirming that one of the nine who had …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms