We were a lot closer to this awful tragedy than I thought.
We had a birthday party here for one of our grandchildren last evening. Her younger sister age 11 is friends with one of the victims. We also know her as they are on basketball team together and we have seen her at matches.
She was a brave girl laying on, and protecting, a younger student, which seems common among the injured children. Children can be amazingly brave. She was admitted to hospital for a while, as she has some shrapnell imbedded in her skull, which surgeons say is too risky to remove. She has two bullet scars on her face and apparently another on her neck, not seen in the photograph.
The shooter was a trans male identifying as female. Of course the BBC and this equally woke newspaper refer to the shooter as she, which is an insult to women. Our TV reporters I am glad to say are referring to the shooter as he.
This whole episode is a disgrace, and one of three mass shootings in this metro in the last five days, the others not so serious.
Americans can not handle guns, and there needs to be a total ban.