Originally Posted by MsCheyenne

I live 20 minutes for where this school shooting took place. A long time family friend has two neighbors who lost a child. My daughter's best friend's cousin was killed. It is impossible to talk to someone in this area that didn't either lose someone or, know someone close to them who's family did. Our kids all play private league sports together. It is a close knit community. This was no fake. There is a lot of shameless exploitation taking place. The scripted CNN town hall meeting was shockingly shameless. The opportunist taking advantage of the teens who survived this must be really awful people. I'd agree there is a lot of staging going on but, this horrible tragedy was very real.