Another senseless death due to gun culture and the ability to obtain weapons right after you hop off the plane.
Two teenage gunmen
I would prefer “assholes”, “scumbags” or “human Petri dishes,” but “killers” will do so long as they are not identified as being “men” in any fashion.
The Miami Beach high school student flew to Colorado on Monday night and bought a pump-action shotgun and ammunition, authorities said.
I think we found a major part of the problem.
Hmmmm… the Flight, or that she was from Florida?
Can’t be anything about the shotgun or ammunition, that stuff just makes everyone safer.
Not mentioned in the article: State Rep. Patrick Neville (R - NRA / Koch Industries) is also a radical pro-gun-nut extremist.
This is just weird
She isn’t one of those 20- or 30-somethings posing as a highschooler, is she?
Tragic that this happened at all, but at least she didn’t take a bunch of kids with her.
As a teacher in one of the Colorado districts closed down today, I’m glad they put our safety first, but I haven’t figured out what to say to the kids tomorrow. 10 year olds are old enough to recognize that they aren’t safe, if anyone can just go and buy a gun, but they aren’t old enough yet to just cynically accept it.
One person, with a weapon easily obtained, stops a city for a couple of days then kills herself. And that’s an outcome now counted as mostly positive. My my.
I take it that Colorado has no waiting period to purchase firearms and ammo even if the purchaser is just 18 years old and from out of state.
What could possibly go wrong?
Sorry this teenager is dead but very, very happy that she didn’t take anyone else out in the process.
State Rep. Patrick Neville, the Republican House minority leader, was a 15-year-old sophomore at Columbine High at the time of the shooting and now has three school-age daughters.
“It wasn’t easy for me to explain to my kids what was going on last night,” Neville said on the House floor Wednesday.
I can imagine, sir. And probably even harder to explain to your kids why your Party won’t allow sensible gun laws, thereby putting their lives at risk.
Just another proof that we live in a free society and we are not serfs like them New Zealanders, that just got their guns taken away within weeks of a single massacre.
By sensible gun laws, I’m presuming you mean requiring all youths from Kindergarten on to receive weapons training and be issued an age-appropriate handgun at the beginning of the school-year.
It is only when all of the kids are armed that we can be sure that nobody will break in to start a school shooting.
I thought her photo made her look older.
Wow, better this than another NRA sponsored massacre…
If a person can be inspired by a tragic event from twenty years ago to do grave harm, then Trump and other Republicans should be much more thoughtful and somber in how they speak about Muslims, Representative Omar in particular. They know words have consequences, but don’t seem to care.
The Miami Herald reports that Colorado police were alerted to a woman with a gun running naked through the woods. She was a Miami Beach High student and lived in Surfside, a small beachfront town just north of Miami Beach.
But, but… she needed it in case the U.S. government started a war against its citizens and she had to shoot down F-16s.