The fatigue is real. A 6-year-old first grader shoots his teacher with a 9mm he stole from his mother, lodging a bullet in the educator's chest near her heart and nearly killing her, and the media and authorities suddenly go quiet about the details of the crime. It's an easy guess as to who is responsible and why.
The details of this story could not be more predictable because it follows a common thread of behavior which has plagued American culture for far too long.
On January 6, 2023 at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, a 6-year-old first-grader (referred to in court as J.T.) shot his teacher, Abby Zwerner with a Taurus pistol he took from his mother. The boy pulled the gun from his hoodie pocket and fired one shot at Zwerner from roughly 10 feet away as she tried to reach for the weapon.
The bullet went through her left hand and lodged in her chest (near her heart; her lung collapsed). She then escorted the other students out of the room before passing out in the school office. No other students were injured. The gun jammed after a single shot and still contained seven rounds (The notoriously cheap quality control of Taurus actually saved lives this time).
The boy never faced charges.
To put the incident in context, it's important to remember that in 2023 the US was still in the midst of extreme race activism triggered by BLM and the political left. The mere act of telling the truth about certain crimes was considered untenable if those crimes involved minority suspects. Black Americans could do no wrong, and any suggestion that there might be a cultural problem was buried or dismissed as "bigotry."
Fast forward to this week, when a judge finally unsealed and
