May 09, 2019 12:42 PM UTC

Bennet and Crow step all over mourning students for political points.

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• by: cologeek

Senator Michael Bennet and Jason Crow joined the Brady campaign in pulling a bait and switch on grieving students from the STEM School of Highlands Ranch.  At an event Wednesday evening that was billed as a vigil for slain student Kendrick Castillo students were enraged as the politicians speaking at the event focused their statements not on the dead young man, but on gun control.  The students stormed out of the event into the cold rain and held their own vigil.

From USA Today:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/09/colorado-school-shooting-vigil-students-walk-out-protest/1150282001/

The event Wednesday was primarily billed as a vigil to honor Kendrick Castillo, who was fatally shot in a rampage by two students at the STEM school here. Speakers at the school’s packed gymnasium, however, were mostly politicians and advocates pressing Congress for more restrictive gun laws.

After about 30 minutes, hundreds of students from the STEM School stormed out yelling “this is not for us,” “political stunt” and “we are people, not a statement.”

Outside, the traumatized shooting survivors thrust lighted cellphones into the air and chanted “mental health, mental health,” as their hands and voices shook in the cold rain. Angry students pushed and screamed at journalists, demanding to see photos they had taken.

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Many students appeared unaware the event was organized by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Jason Crow, both Democrats, both spoke at length about the need for federal action. The Brady Campaign invited reporters to cover the event.

This got nationwide coverage.  I’m sure Bennet and Crow, along with the Brady Campaign thought they were getting a great photo opportunity to promote stricter gun control laws with a background of mourning students.  Instead they showed how tactless and tacky they can be trying to capitalize on the students grief.