Today in American gun violence
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Somebody went on a shooting spree at an Iowa high school this morning. The shooter is dead, and there are multiple victims, although it’s not known yet if enough kids will have been killed to make this a prominent news story. (The criteria for that are constantly escalating, given the banality of school shootings 25 years after Columbine).
Relatedly, the “good” news about the shooting at the Colorado Supreme Court Tuesday morning is that it seems probable it wasn’t actually triggered by the Colorado court’s ruling in the Trump disqualification case. Instead, it appears what happened is that some lunatic with a gun got into a traffic accident in front of the building, and then into some sort of fight with the other driver, before breaking into the building, holding a security guard at gunpoint until the guard opened a locked door (this was at 1 AM so the security guard was one of only two people in the building at the time, the other apparently being a lawyer burning the post-midnight oil), and then doing “extensive” damage to the building by exercising his Second Amendment Rights via random discharge of his weapon/gun/firearm (apologies to ammosexuals if I’m getting the terminology wrong).
This is good news in that it’s better than targeted political violence against non-fascist judges, but the bad news is that we live in a country in which it’s pretty much the case that a lunatic with a gun randomly shooting up a public building is a dog bites man story, given the prevalence of
(a) Lunatics
(b) Guns; and
(c) Triggering events like traffic accidents and subsequent road rage.