This time, it occurred at Annunciation Catholic School during a morning Mass on the south side of Minneapolis on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Two children, one 8, the other 10, were killed. Twenty-one other people, including 18 kids, were injured. The shooter, whose name should not be mentioned, took his own life.
It’s a regular occurrence in America. Kids are targets, and we seem to accept it without much consideration on how to prevent it from occurring again. The K-12 School Shooting Database — and the mere fact that it exists should alarm us — reports the Minneapolis murders were the 146th gun-related event in an American school this year.
That includes 91 incidents where a gun was fired, either frightening or intimidating people, or wounding or killing someone. That’s from Everytown for Gun Safety…