Homicide count

Recently I mentioned James Brady in the thread about Ann Marie Hochhalter. I suppose I’m a bit surprised that it is controversial to add her name to the victim list for Columbine. In a way, I understand. A lot of time has passed. But her death is a direct result of the wounds inflicted by the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre.

Just today another example occurred to me. In 1881, President Garfield was shot by a man named Charles Guiteau. But Pres Garfield didn’t die right away. He didn’t even die that summer (he was shot in July.) James Garfield didn’t die until that September. This was before X-rays and handwashing so doctors were digging around in the wound and eventually the President died in September 1881.

Guiteau was pretty out-there at trial and didn’t deny the shooting, but tried to say that he didn’t kill the President, only that he shot him. But the judge found him responsible, and his sentence was carried out.

I guess that’s what I’m getting at here. There’s a straight line between the Columbine killers and Ann Marie Hochhalter’s death. That line is there whether the death happens that day, the next, a week, a summer, or 30 years later.

Recently I mentioned James Brady in the thread about Ann Marie Hochhalter. I suppose I’m a bit surprised that it is controversial to add her name to the victim list for Columbine. In a way, I understand. A lot of time has passed. But her death is a direct result of the wounds inflicted by the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre.

Just today another example occurred to me. In 1881, President Garfield was shot by a man named Charles Guiteau. But Pres Garfield didn’t die right away. He didn’t even die that summer (he was shot in July.) James Garfield didn’t die until that September. This was before X-rays and handwashing so doctors were digging around in the wound and eventually the President died in September 1881.

Guiteau was pretty out-there at trial and didn’t deny the shooting, but tried to say that he didn’t kill the President, only that he shot him. But the judge found him responsible, and his sentence was carried out.

I guess that’s what I’m getting at here. There’s a straight line between the Columbine killers and Ann Marie Hochhalter’s death. That line is there whether the death happens that day, the next, a week, a summer, or 30 years later.