February 15, 2008
Tragedy Too Close to Home
When I first moved back up here, I took a job in a college town just south east of THE Valley - a city named DeKalb.
Home of the Corn Festival and NIU. (Northern Illinois University).
Yesterday was probably the worst day in the history of the sleepy farm town.
A gunman walked into a lecture hall and shot five people and then himself, and wounding 16 others.
It's all you can see on the news. It's horrific. Another college campus shooting.....another tragedy.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the students, the University and the community.
The even sadder part is knowing that it will probably happen again, on some other college campus, somewhere else, because of the three minutes it takes for a uniformed officer to get on the scene and draw his/her piece from their holster to bring the shooter down...20 people could be dead by then...in three lousy, horrible minutes.
Posted by: Erica at February 15, 2008 09:19 AMKind of makes you wonder if all those college kids, and the profs were packin', that disheveled soul might not have got off so many shots. It takes some time to reload a shotgun.
I feel bad for all families involved and hope to high heaven it doesn't happen when one of my children happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I know everybody that has children hopes the same thing. I don't know how to stop this crap, but I wish I did. It's senseless...