We made the national news again. ABC, CNN, NBC, NPR, The Washington Post, MSNBC, Fox News – they all talked about our downtown shooting Saturday night that left six teens, ages 15 and under, wounded – two critically.
Aside from that, it was a typical beautiful Saturday night until shooting started at about 10:48 in Chattanooga just about a block from the Tennessee Aquarium and riverfront.
Aside from that, there is no aside.
NPR reported Sunday that, according to Gun Violence Archive, at least eight mass shootings took place across the U.S. over the weekend following last week’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 22 were killed and another 17 were injured at an elementary school by an 18-year-shooter who bought himself two AR-style rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition shortly after his birthday.
But NPR pulled the trigger too soon, reporting its story before the long Memorial Day weekend was over.