If Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships this sad young woman closed a thousand schools. Front Range media went on full alert, in fact some businesses closed because she was here in the Mile High City.
I’m sure by now you all recall in the week leading up to the 20th anniversary of the mass murder at Columbine High School we had a very underweight, very small 18-year-old girl who never saw snow in her life arrive at DIA. In a matter of hours, she became a combination of Rambo and Che Guevara, frightening the entire Front Range from south of Greeley to north of the Springs as the FBI claimed they were investigating her as a “credible threat” against Colorado schools.
The evidence now points to she never made a death threat on anyone, never threatened anyone. One of her friends said she was infatuated with Columbine. Note to self, the entire Front Range media including my award-winning radio show has been infatuated with Columbine. They red flagged the entire state of Colorado. There’s been a post death complex picture of this young woman. She’s been described as deeply troubled, lonely, talked about suicide, and was also described as brilliant, kind, and a very talented artist. That sounds like a lot of people I’ve worked with in radio.
Her mother told the cops she never did drugs as they filed the missing persons report after her last text when she said she was going to an art history review.
The seemingly missing pieces of this puzzle are why did the FBI get involved? Who notified whom? Did the Miami FBI call the Denver FBI? Was she on her way to DIA? This one person held all of the school systems and, in fact, the whole Front Range hostage and to a high degree of probability was dead in the snow (not nude and no tattoos of Klebold and Harris) by the time the massive manhunt was even launched.
She went up there, saw snow and killed herself near the Echo Lake Lodge near the base of Mount Evans. She purchased three one-way tickets for three different days, which is dumb but not against the law. The gun dealer who sold her a shotgun did not break any laws. So, you tell me, why was she such a “credible threat?”
But the real critique comes in the aftermath with the opinion makers, the Governor, and other dumbasses who seem to be running the State of Colorado.
How about armed guards at schools? While I was researching this thesis, I found numbers of papers and reports done by the politically correct who say guns on the teacher’s hips will frighten the children and they won’t be able to study. Having been in Israel that must be news to all the kids there who go on to earn great degrees. It would make infinite sense but as you now know the PC left of center advocates say a gun can never be a good thing. And hence, as Patsy Ramsey noted, a gun can’t be an answer except when it’s World War II when a good guy with a gun comes up against a bad guy with a gun.
So, when little Muffy and Buffy don’t have armed guards to stop armed intruders they will hide in the closet and the lunchroom and you know how fast police will respond.
Schools should have armed guards to stop armed violence.
Is it missing on the Front Range media and Democrat Party that you cannot find one mass shooting at a police station, National Guard armory or a sporting goods store that sells guns? Conspicuous by its absence because good guys stop bad guys. It’s a simple reason we should embrace armed guards in schools. I love it when the Democrats say guns in school produce a police state and America will become an armed camp.
Really? Don’t forget we have armed guards at Broncos games, Denver City cops working off duty to protect the south stands from the Oakland Raiders.
But don’t expect to see anyone talk about this.
She was more than just a threat; she became an excuse and in the brilliance of my grandson who, when his mother told him school was closed that day, looked out the window and asked, “where’s the snow?” Someday maybe he’ll write this column.
God bless America.
- Peter Boyles