Students Storm Out Of Anti-Gun Vigil For Colorado Shooting

By Tom Knighton

In the wake of any tragedy, someone is bound to organize a vigil. It’s simply something that we do. We need to remember, to honor the victims, to at least show our support of those who lost a loved one or who survived.

If there’s a tragedy, there’s typically a vigil.

However, vigils for mass shootings aren’t really vigils all that much these days. No, they’re anti-gun rallies. While pro-gun folks are expected to sit down and shut up during the initial aftermath, anti-gun voices can ring as loudly as they want. Gun control groups have a tendency to organize “vigils” where they can advance their anti-gun narrative to an audience that’s particularly vulnerable at that moment.

In the case of Highlands Ranch, that’s no exception. What is an exception is what a group of students did.

Survivors of a Colorado school shooting walked out of vigil for their slain classmate on Wednesday night in protest of politicians and other groups using it as a platform for gun control, a local report said.

The students from STEM High School, where two gunman killed a student and wounded eight others on Tuesday, began yelling from the stands that they “wanted to be heard” …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms