I just read that the UNC Class President Eve Carson was shot to death (shot many times) this morning. Yesterday a girl at Auburn was shot. Then there's the Va Tech shootings. Oh, and the NIU shootings. What the hell???
This is way, way past alarming. This is way, way past terrifying. The question "what's going on here," is so void of magnitude as to be insulting. I think it can easily be called an epidemic.
I was listening to Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" two days ago and it struck me that when that song came out, the idea of a school shooting by a troubled student was still very much isolated and quite disturbing. Now a days it is doubly disturbing, but because of its' frequency, not because of its uniqueness. We're becoming so used to hearing that someone else was shot somewhere else by someone else with some kind of troubled past that the news doesn't even shock anymore.
This one is hitting really close to home. No, scratch that. This one is hitting home. Something is very wrong. Something is very, very wrong...
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