
High School students were evacuated to the Schnucks parking lot from the Central Visual& Performing Arts High School after a shooting at the school in St. Louis on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. - David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS
The active-shooter scene this time wasn’t from a school in a faraway town like Uvalde, Texas, but rather right down the street at the Central Visual & Performing Arts dual high school complex right across the street from Tower Grove Park. The scenes of ambulance gurneys carting away victims and panicked students and adults running for cover brought home, once again, the painful reality of life in America today: Lawmakers continue doing their best to ensure that as many people as possible have access to guns, leaving teachers and children to deal with the aftermath when those guns fall into the...