School Shooting in Kentucky Is Nation’s 11th of Year. It’s Jan. 23.
“But you would think that shootings in American schools would be able to clear away some of that clutter.”
Matt Bevin of Kentucky said the gunman who opened fire Tuesday morning at Marshall County
High School in Benton, near the western tip of the state was a 15-year-old student.
The suspect, who was not immediately identified, was taken into custody in “a nonviolent apprehension,” Mr. Bevin said,
and officials said he would be charged with two counts of murder and several counts of attempted murder.
Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun safety group, said that’s because in 2012 in Newtown, “20 first graders
and six educators were slaughtered in an elementary school.”
“The news cycles are so short right now in America, and there’s a lot going on,” she said.
“Any time there’s a school shooting, it’s more gut-wrenching,
and I think we have a tendency to react in a more visceral way,” Ms. Schweit said in an interview on Tuesday.