How many more will die before we learn? (anti-Gun Barf Alert)

Denver Post ^ | 13 dec 07 | Gail Schoettler

[rellimpank]

Colorado is certainly gaining a worldwide reputation these days. But it's not for our magnificent mountains or fantastic skiing. It's for our horrific murders, first in schools and now in churches. What a reputation! Columbine shook us to the core. Wherever I travel, when I say I'm from Colorado, that's the first thing people ask about. Then we had Platte Canyon. And now the Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada and the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. Children mowed down by severely depressed classmates and demented adults. Where will this stop?

Of course, we're not the only ones. We've seen mass murders across the country. We've seen so many mass murders that we're almost numb. Just one more shooting to note. Unless you're the parents of the children shot to death in Colorado Springs or Arvada or Columbine or Platte Canyon. Or all the other places where people have died at the hands of a deranged killer

[montag813]

Wherever I travel, when I say I'm from Colorado, that's the first thing people ask about.

She will be surprised (and probably revolted) when next time people ask her about Jeanne Assam and how she stopped a massacre.