I’m so glad there was a happy ending to this scary incident!
Yesterday I wrote about the shooting at the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy.
My step son was a student there last year. I knew the landscape. I had dropped him off numerous times. My wife and I went to the open house, then to the honors ceremony. So I sat and watched the events unfold, feeling an odd sense deja vu.
I pictured a sloppy drunk with an old 38. Someone inherently harmless. Maybe that’s a defense mechanism. Maybe I did it because I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole that would end with nightmares about Sandy Hook.
Well, the gunman’s name is Michael Brandon Hill. He’s 20, mentally ill and he was very heavily armed.
Normally you have to be buzzed into the school, but Hill slipped in behind a parent. He was armed with an AK 47, with other weapons in his backpack. He expressed that he…
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