The Patriot Post® · CO School Shooting Review

The student who shoot and wounded two in a Colorado high school yesterday before killing himself did so with a legally purchased shotgun, not an “assault weapon,” and he had no criminal background. (Joe Biden has been known to recommend shotguns from time to time.) There are already calls to “do something” again about “gun violence,” especially since today is the one year anniversary of Sandy Hook, but as National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke writes, “Everything that the shooter did … was already illegal. He walked into a school with a firearm. That’s illegal. He shot at people with intent to kill and maim. That’s illegal. He attempted to commit premeditated murder. That’s illegal.” Two final notes: 1) He was stopped by an armed resource officer at the school, and 2) this was no Tea Party crazy; one fellow student described the perp as “very proud of being a socialist.”