Mass shootings, or at least attempted mass shootings, are the kind of story that the media will run with for days because it helps push a policy item that is at the top of the left’s agenda: gun control. But the story has to sit just right. If any narrative element is off or if new, inconvenient details emerge, then the story has to be pulled. Such is the case with Sunday’s shooting at Lakewood church in Houston, Texas.
You recall the initial details: armed individual wearing a trench coat enters into a church and starts shooting. Off-duty law enforcement, some might call them good guys with a gun, quickly stepped in and neutralized the shooter. Unfortunately, a child was shot in the head and another gentleman was grazed in the leg. Even worse for the media, the inconvenient details began to roll in.
The shooter’s identity was a mystery, with both male…
