Editorial on Mass Shooting Heroes Takes Unexpected Turn

Anytime someone tries to tell me the media is unbiased, I laugh. Why? Because I’m the guy who reads so many editorials from newspapers across the nation, and almost never do I see a pro-gun one.

When I do, it’s a small town in a pro-gun state. Those are the exceptions, and as someone who was the publisher of a small paper, I know how extensive editorial boards in those kinds of publications can be.

Not very.

So yeah, that’s what I see all the time.

When I saw an editorial out of Colorado about how teens shouldn’t have to be heroes during mass shootings, I kind of figured I knew where it was going.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that teens should be in the position where they feel they have to step up like that. I’m damn glad some do, because it restores my faith in the younger generation if nothing else, but I agree they shouldn’t be in that position.

As I read on, though, I got a nice surprise.

We are torn between celebrating these incredible acts and crying for the state of our country. Mass shootings have been occurring in Colorado schools since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. How is it that students are still the ones confronting these assailants and not our trained adult professionals in law enforcement? Every school in this state needs an armed officer on campus at all times.

We should not be asking our kids to save themselves. More must be done to protect students who attend school hoping to grow and learn, and far too often in the past decade have found themselves trying to survive the horrors of mass shootings and the trauma that follows.

Nine minutes passed between when the shooting began inside Evergreen High School and when Silverstone was shot at the corner of Buffalo Park Road and Olive Road at the far end of the high school’s campus. Having an officer on the campus could have resulted in a different outcome.

Expressing gratitude to these kids for their acts of heroism is not enough. We can name a street for Silverstone (and should, just as we created Castillo Way). We can cry for their pain and suffering, and rejoice at their perseverance and determination.

But adults in Colorado must now act to ensure that no other child in this state is forced to fight an armed assailant for their lives and the lives of their friends and teachers.

That’s it.

No calls for gun control. No screaming about this law or that law. Just a simple mention that if a police officer had been on campus, Evergreen could have ended very differently, and for the better.

Now, it’s not the same thing as advocating for campus carry. It looks like this came out of the Denver Post initially, so I’m not surprised there’s no real pro-gun sentiment there, but having a school resource officer on campuses like Evergreen is a far more reasonable position than punishing ordinary people for the extreme actions of another.

I honestly didn’t expect to see this one.

Is this a matter of Colorado having passed all the gun control they think they can get away with, hence the editorial being forced into reasonableness? Or is it something else?

I honestly don’t know, but the turn was still both surprising and pleasant.

Let’s hope we see a whole lot more of it.

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