On Sept. 10, 2025, the nation’s attention was riveted by the fatal shooting[1] of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. At nearly the exact same time, a state away − in Colorado − an active shooting was underway[2] on a high school campus in a sleepy mountain town[3], leaving two teens in critical condition and the shooter, a fellow student, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot.
While...