Just Another Afternoon in America
February 23, 2010 at 6:16 PM 1 comment
Two “juveniles” have been shot at Deer Creek Middle School in Jefferson County, Colorado. Local media is covering the situation live. Kids are running out of the school and across the street to a local park. Cop cars and yellow police tape are everywhere. The overall scene looks a lot like Columbine. But while ten years ago the cable “news” networks would have cut in to cover this with “breaking news,” school shootings are apparently so commonplace here in the United States that so far, 20-minutes in, at 6:16 p.m. ET, they’re sticking with their regularly scheduled programming.
Sad.
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M. Douglas Wray | February 23, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Shh. Don’t look. It’s not happening. War is peace.