For Latch, she understood the gravity of the shooting immediately, especially with the increase of mass shootings in the U.S. Latch said that recent rhetoric that says the press is ‘the enemy of the people’ has contributed to this violence, but she didn’t expect it to escalate to the point of journalists losing their lives. As a student working towards her own career in journalism, the Capital Gazette shooting highlighted the risks Latch may one day face.