Students hid in their classrooms, some behind locked doors or in closets, as a gunman opened fire Thursday inside a New Mexico high school, killing two classmates before he ended up dead.
Authorities and other officials in the small town of Aztec near the Colorado border have released few details other than to say the shooter and two victims attended Aztec High School.
No other injuries were reported, and it was not clear if the shooter died by suicide or was killed by police.
Bryn Divine, a senior, said she was sitting at her desk in her history class when she heard gunshots erupt down the hall. At first, it sounded as if someone was swinging a metal baseball bat against the lockers.
Then she heard an announcer over the school intercom tell students: “This is not a drill.”
“I stayed in my desk, and I just prayed, ‘Please just let this be over as soon as possible.’ That was my first reaction,” she said.
I hate to break to this young woman, but this will never be over.
Never.
And just to drive that point home just the other day Congress passed a bill that would allow folks to carry concealed weapons across state lines.
After all this is America, where we are constantly told that access to more guns means less gun violence.
And so long as many of our fellow Americans believe that there will be a never ending stream of blood flowing from the victims of that mindset.
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