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<p>Perhaps he was looking at the question in a general (non-UC-specific) stance, in which case it’s very fair to say that random violence (like car accidents and drug overdoses) kills more college students than campus shootings.</p>
<p>At UC, the odds of either happening are astronomical. However, the prevalence of both gang activity and available guns on the South Side means that, if I have to rank, I’m going to put “hit by a stray bullet” over “deranged campus shooting.” People do kill each other in the neighborhood - last month there was a gang shooting so close that people in apartments could hear the shots, in mid-afternoon - and so if I was putting morbid odds on what was more likely to end my life, I’d pick that. </p>
<p>But like I said, I’m about 400 times more worried about my analysis midterm than any sort of violence happening on campus, which I think was JHS’s issue in the first place (random violence occurring in “far higher numbers”).</p>