Two shootings less than two weeks apart have exposed the difference in how America responds to gun violence, depending on who it targets.
While top executives of multibillion-dollar companies beefed up security and canceled in-person meetings in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month in New York City, students and teachers were offered little more than the typical outpouring of “thoughts and prayers” after the latest school shooting this week.
On Monday, a familiar story played out in Wisconsin, where a 15-year-old student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, a small nondenominational school in Madison, killing another teenager and a teacher. This time, a second grader made the 911 call that sent police swarming to Abundant Life. By the time they arrived, the shooter, whom officials identified as a 15-year-old girl, was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.