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I also thought mini was being facetious. I live where Cho did his target practice and checked into a hotel and where scores of adults ignored the college kids and Niki Giovani who stood up and repeatedly pointed out that he was mentally ill and needed immediate attention by the medical community. Leaving the endless debate about gun laws aside, I have to say that Cho was a hugely obviously mentally ill young adult and that we can change how we respond as a society to mental illness without resolving the gun debate at all and in that way, we can help reduce risk. So many homicides are also domestic violence with plenty of red flags before they take place as well.

My nephew was in the dorm getting ready for class where the brave senior RA from Georgia and the poor randomly hunted down girl who loved to ride horses...were shot. A girl in my son's class was four doors away on that hall. I thought it was disrespectful to the dead and injured for the man to appear on campus...provocative but not in a constructive way.
Sadly, many northern Virginians sent their children down here to us, certain they were enrolled in college in a less populous, more peaceful place, safer from random crime than ever in their lives.
I was listening to the murder count in Chicago on TV the other night and thinking..."no Univ of Chicago for my boy" when I had to admit that after what happened near my home, there is no way to predict risk anymore very well...and I had no reason to view Chicago in that manner.