Kendrick Castillo, the hero of the STEM Colorado shooting who sacrificed his own life to save the lives of several others during the left wing terrorist shooting spree hasn’t gotten much media attention outside of Colorado. If not for Kendrick Castillo, there may have been a lot more casualties in the STEM school shooting other than Castillo.
A week earlier in Norther Carolina, Riley Howell sacrificed his own life to save the lives of other University of North Carolina at Charlotte students during that school’s mass shooting, yet like Castillo, hasn’t gotten much if any media attention.
Now, left wing UK magazine “this week” claims it’s “dangerous” to “lionize” heroes of mass shootings like Kendrick Castillo and Riley Howell or something. Why? Because according to the left wing limey magazine, if you lionizing Castillo and Howell, you might we be encouraging our nation’s young students to engage in unnecessary and unfair heroics?
Seriously leftists? People act in the heat of the moment. They don’t seek glory and fame when they try and save other people’s lives. I know it’s common for left wing asswipes to try and cash in on anything, including a good deed, but this is beyond ridiculous. Does anyone honestly think that Kendrick Castillo or Riley Howell decided to sacrifice their own lives just for fame and glory? Come on!
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Howell was given a hero’s burial. Castillo is being lauded by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, USA Today, The Denver Post, and other news organizations and TV networks. These students are heroes. They sacrificed their lives to save others, and they deserve these accolades. But they deserved so much more — they deserved to live. By lionizing them, might we be encouraging our nation’s young students to engage in unnecessary and unfair heroics?
As we have learned in the 53 years since a lone gunman took 17 lives from atop the University of Texas tower, there is a blurry line between shining a klieg light on mass shootings and inadvertently encouraging them. Just last month, police said an 18-year-old woman from Miami was planning an homage shooting at Columbine High School — eight miles from STEM School Highlands Ranch — because she was “infatuated” with the two students who had murdered 13 fellow students and a teacher there 20 years earlier.
Indeed, in recent years, law enforcement has started taking the position that we shouldn’t use the names of the mass shooters, the murderers, in order to deprive them of the infamy some of them seem to crave. We don’t want to create anti-heroes. But I also think we need to tread carefully with regard to how we speak about the young heroes who emerge from these terrible events. Castillo and Howell were following the new advice for school shootings: Run, hide, fight. But “fight” is last on purpose: It is not the job of our students to confront people with guns and murderous intent. They are not trained for that. They shouldn’t be trained for that. They are children in 21st-century America.