A 15-year-old boy was shot on Halloween night in Vacaville, California — a Solano County community that not long ago didn't make this kind of news — and he's lucky to be alive. Three other teenagers were shot the same night across the country. Two of them didn't survive.
That's the stake: communities that used to be safe are absorbing the consequences of a justice system that refuses to hold the line, and the press would rather talk about the gun than the policies that put it in a teenager's hands.
Vacaville police responded to Canterbury Circle and Hampton Street just after 10:20 p.m. Saturday and found the boy lying in the roadway with gunshot wounds, according to the Mercury News. He was transported in critical condition but stabilized by Sunday morning and is expected to survive. Police say the shooting followed an argument at a nearby house where people had gathered. The suspect or suspects remain at large.
CBS News and the Mercury News both framed the incident as
