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14 February 2008

Sorry to burst the happy-day bubble. Multiple victims in Chicago campus shooting.

post by: essexjan at: 19:00 | 11 comments

I was reading this just now. There were some other school shootings last week. one, two, three. I have to feel bad for the kids that feel like it is necessary that they shoot other human beings to express their pain. On the other hand I can't help but to view the adults shooters as cowards. It's horribly sad.

posted by LoriFLA 14 February | 19:18

His Valentine box was empty.

posted by quonsar 14 February | 19:33

A lot of my friends went to NIU. It's sad and scary. Thoughts going out to everyone.

posted by sisterhavana 14 February | 19:39

The saddest thing about this, to me, is that when I heard them talking about it on the radio, I thought they were referring to a shooting that happened last week. (I don't think anyone died in that one except the shooter.) There are so many of these they run together. Fuck.

posted by BoringPostcards 14 February | 20:58

I wonder how the WBC will justify turning this into another picketing opportunity.

posted by pieisexactlythree 14 February | 21:13

another Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago?
tragically unoriginal.

posted by wendell 14 February | 21:41

another Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago?
tragically unoriginal.

I was ashamed to admit my thoughts initially ran to that before the "how horrid" bit kicked in.

I wonder how the WBC will justify turning this into another picketing opportunity.

I don't really think anything justifies anything they do. Up to and including the stubborn insistence they have to continued existing and sucking down natural resources.

posted by kellydamnit 14 February | 22:28

another Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago?

Keep in mind that Dekalb is closer to Iowa than to Chicago. It's 65 miles away.

I'm just amazed and saddened by all these shootings. I'm worried that it's become a method of choice in this generation (thanks to the Columbine shooters setting an example) like car bombs and suicide bombs have in the Middle East.

posted by me3dia 15 February | 01:29

If Colombine started a trend why weren't there many more kids in clocktowers with rifles a la Whitman in the seventies?

posted by dabitch 15 February | 09:25

OMG. I just came back from a meeting to find like 5 emails in my inbox about the NIU gunman. Why? He shares my (rare, hard to spell, Polish) last name.

I feel a little strange abou tit.

posted by misskaz 15 February | 10:50

DeKalb is in the Chicago commuter rail system, but otherwise it's wayyyy exurbia. Until 10 years ago I would barely have counted it part of metro Chicago at all.

Very very sad. We have family friends just up the road from here, one of whom is an NIU alum.

posted by stilicho 15 February | 13:32

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