This is a piece that I don’t want to write but I feel like it is something I have a duty to do. I am the Co-Sports Editor for the Advance-Titan. I love to write about sports, especially UW Oshkosh sports, but a very terrible event happened back in my home state of Minnesota a couple of weeks ago and I feel that this is my opportunity to share my view on what happened.
On the morning of Aug. 27, I woke up to the news that there was an active shooter situation at Annunciation Catholic School and Church in Minneapolis. First, I read that the shooter was contained and I thought that it was a relief and a disaster averted. But then I later read and realized that before the shooter was “contained,” they shot what is now confirmed to be 23 people including 18 kids, killing two of the children.
I remember when the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting happened, and when the Uvalde school shooting happened in 2022. It seemed unfathomable that a shooting at an elementary school would happen not once but twice. But for the third time, especially at a school in your state, that feels awful. Especially when your state is trying to fix a bad name from the outside media due to the George Floyd riots…