The STEM School shooting in Colorado gave the media the usual chance to muddle information. The original reporting I found said that the casualties were comparatively low because law enforcement arrived on-scene in two minutes and subdued the assholes. By yesterday, we began hearing a story that differed somewhat: student Kendrick Castillo “rushed” one of the chumbuckets.
This morning…
No thought for their own safety: Hero students disarm gunman
The three students who disarmed a gunman in a Colorado school shooting leapt up from their desks without a word and with no thought for their own safety when they spotted the gun, recounted one of the young men.
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Authorities said the actions of Castillo, Bialy and Joshua Jones minimized the bloodshed from Tuesday’s attack at the school south of Denver that wounded eight students along with killing the 18-year-old Castillo.
Kendrick Castillo
Brendan Bialy
Joshua Jones
These young men rushed an active shooter, and disarmed him, at the cost of one of their own dead and one wounded. Not police.
Thank you, gentlemen.
As for the media… So far, the younger attacker has been reported as male, female, male identifying as (sometimes “transitioning to”) female, and female identifying as (or transitioning to) male. I’m not sure which is more confused: chum or reporters.
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Funny how to the media that hero’s are only hero’s if they wear badges and are agents of the state with guns. Something really wrong with that.
And if the government hadn’t forcibly deprived all the good citizens on this property of their constitutional rights, these heroes need not have been injured or died.
Why do we call Police “First Responders”?
Seems like no matter how fast they can get on scene they never are.
We on hand as an incident unfolds are the first responders and our responses determine whether we live or die.
Act as if no one is coming to save you.
I think it’s possible some other heroes are stepping up as well. Some students are catching on. Not #MoneyHogg of course, but still https://nypost.com/2019/05/09/students-storm-out-of-colorado-school-shooting-vigil-in-protest-of-politicians/
It turns out there may be a whole lot more to the story than just that.
https://www.gunnewsusa.com/2019/05/10/stem-school-sued-to-id-parent-who-warned-of-another-columbine/
TL;DR: A parent warned 5 months ago that the school was a pressure cooker of violence, drugs, sex assaults, and that a mass shooting was possible. The school’s director blew it off with a letter to parents denying any problems. The the school filed a lawsuit to identify the parent who wrote the warning letter for purposes of a defamation claim.
The kids at the vigil-turned-gun-control rally were yelling about mental health because everyone knew the real problem and that the school blew it off.
Then there’s the SRO issue: https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2019/05/10/stem-school-shooting-colorado-security-sheriff-dispute/
TL;DR: School blew off the SRO contract because the sheriff told them they were violating the contract by over-using the SRO, and using him for stuff not in the contracted duties (mainly they wanted him to prioritize being “visible” to traffic at the beginning and end of day).
Once again, the school knew they had a problem and tried to hide it for PR reasons and wouldn’t spring for full time security. Sound familiar?
At least one of the shooters reportedly had a history of legal and illegal drug use and therapy. Students said one shooter was known to be weird and voice vague threats.
Amazing how they stopped dancing in the blood once the shooters were found not to fit their script… an illegal, wife beating dad, a transgender.
Crickets, not trumpets.
As a teacher, I was writing for a pro-2nd Amendment publication whose articles took several years to be posted online. I was doing a piece on Michael Moore’s Fraudumentary, Bowling for Columbine. It was late after school, the kids had gone home an hour ago, so O remote printed from my room to the printer in the copy room next to the library. When I walked across the hall to retrieve it, there was no article. Assuming system failure, I hit “send” again, went to the copy room, retrieved the copy and forgot all about it. Ah, but in the true fashion of liberal colleagues, coward backstabbers, the librarian had seen my first copy come through and snatched it up. When I got called in to the principal’s office, there was a note on my article saying “you should read this.” He denied knowing who had placed the article on his desk or who had written the note, as if anyone could walk into his office and leave something without him being there. No way. I soon learned his dishonest trick was to call us in about some minor problem, sometimes fabricated (a lie) and then spring the real reason you were called in. This way, you prepared for the stated reason in the email but remained unaware of the ambush. I had mocked people who get their understanding of history from Hollywood movies. I made some quip about high school students being that way because some lived behind the “Canabis Curtain.” I didn’t say “my” students or mention my school’s name. He was furious and insisted there was no drug problem at our school. In fact, there was a huge drug problem. My point is, administrators feel pressured to downplay drugs, violence, crime, and anything that puts the school in a negative light. Hence, arming teachers, allowing cadres of former military and police, metal detectors, etc. represent a de facto admission something is wrong. So, they keep things hushed and hope nothing bad happens while they are the principal.
In the case of the STEM School, filing a defamation lawsuit — and opening themselves up to discovery — was probably not the best way to keep things hushed.