This is an update to my previous post about the Evergreen High School report. I have the report in hand now, but I haven’t fully read it yet because it’s pushing close to 700 pages. That’s not something you just casually flip through. Meanwhile, local media in Colorado has been pulling more details out of it, and those details fill in a picture that looks very familiar.
What we’re seeing inside that house is a gun-heavy environment. Investigators found a safe in the garage, and when they opened it, it contained multiple firearms, including both long guns and handguns, along with magazines and boxes of ammunition. That wasn’t the only place guns were stored either. Additional rifles and shotguns were found in a living room closet, along with more ammunition and gear. So even before you get to anything else, there were weapons spread across the home in more than one location.
Now compare that to what was found in Desmond Holly’s room. This wasn’t just a kid with a passing interest in firearms. Investigators reported double rifle magazines, a tactical helmet, an armored plate, and knee pads. There was a gas mask, a homemade hatchet, and multiple swords mounted on the wall, with one apparently missing. Hanging there too was a knife with a Nazi eagle insignia on it. Books about firearms and Nazi history were found as well. That’s someone building an identity around guns and Nazi ideology.
Yet the family says Holly didn’t have any “major personal problems.” If the kid was decorating his walls with Nazi regalia, I’d hate to see what they would consider major personal problems.
The parents also insist there was no way Holly could have accessed the safe. They say he didn’t know the code and everything was secured. Yet, once again, a 16-year-old still managed to get hold of a firearm and bring it into a school. That story keeps repeating itself across cases, and it never lines up with reality.
According to the reporting, Holly was also 3D-printing gun components. The family downplays it like it was just designs, but that doesn’t hold water with me. If your kid is 3D printing gun parts, they’re trying to build something, or at the very least learn how to.
We also now know the gun used in the shooting was a .357 revolver that belonged to his grandmother and was kept in that garage safe. A .357 isn’t exactly a beginner’s piece. Granny clearly didn’t fuck around. I’m going to have to go deeper into the report to see how she fits into all this, because somewhere in there is likely the explanation for why no charges were ever filed against the family when that gun ended up in Holly’s hands.
But when you put it all together, it’s difficult to pretend this came out of nowhere. This was a house where guns were everywhere, where gear and weapons were part of the environment, and where a teenager was already immersed in that world.
With a family culture like that, stretching back generations, it’s not surprising what happened next.
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