Shooting at NIU geology class
In case you haven't yet heard the news, the school shooting that took place yesterday afternoon at Northern Illinois University's Dekalb campus was in a geology class. I don't know what class, but it was in a "large lecture hall" (CNN) and the instructor was apparently a graduate student (Washington Post). The shooter was apparently an ex-sociology graduate student (Post). I can't imagine how awful that must be. There have been plenty of previous school shootings (unfortunately), but hearing that it was in a geology class really clarified in my imagination the horror of such an event unfolding.
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It reminds me of how easily it could have happened at my school...and what it felt like to hear what my friends at Virginia Tech were going through last year.
It's too bad that this kind of thing keeps happening in gun-free zones. If one student or teacher had been armed, this animal could have been stopped. Gun-free zones do nothing but make victims. Guns themselves are the problem but the animals behind them are. Stop the animals not the guns!
The course was Intro to Ocean Sciences; the instructor was a vertebrate paleontology grad student.
It freaked me out quite a bit, and I searched the news sites last night.
I can confirm Kim's observations - I did exactly the same investigation myself yesterday evening.
James Cook says: "If one student or teacher had been armed, this animal could have been stopped."
How do we decide which person gets to be armed? Just to make sure, maybe we all should be. When you show up for college orientation you are issued an uzi and target practice is mandatory. Yeah...that's the solution...give me a break.
James, please don't turn this into an opportunistic diatribe about guns. It's painful enough that students have to hear about their peers being killed in what should have been a safe place. They don't need to have someone extolling the virtues of the weapons that killed their friends.
I didn't appreciate hearing this kind of thing after the Tech shootings happened, and I certainly don't appreciate seeing it now.
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