How many more have to die?
Posted By: anon on 2008-02-15
In Reply to: How many more have to die?! - Hayseed
Well wearing my HUSKIE red today and proud to say that I am an NIU Alum as well as having been on the staff there. My family has now had 3 generations attending the school there as well as my father being retired administration from NIU.
In response to your post, it is the PARENTS responsibility to see that their children are raised with PROPER values -- ironic that the shooter was a Sociology major. My own PERSONAL theory on this, is that yes, there was a grudge, and that he may have wanted to get back at an instructor or even professor and possibly felt that that particular person would be there at that particular time. Yes, he was OFF his medications, but think about how MUCH the media is into play with this, think about the fact that we have computer and video games that promote violence and just the downturn of our society in general. When I talked to my father this morning, he was at my sister's house and she lives near Kishwaukee Community Hospital and dad said that a DeKalb and its pronounced DE KALB and not De Calb couny mounty flying down First Street at about 130 miles an hour.
I was listening to a local talk radio station here in Miami today, driving up here for the weekend from near the Keys, and callers actually thought there had only been 6-8 school related shootings -- WRONG -- try more like 50-60 and they -- the shooters have been ranging in age from kindergarter to upwards -- what is wrong with this country and in particular IL, is that it is LEGAL to purchase and possess a gun, however, it is ILLEGAL to carry a concealed weapon, and I know of what I speak as my significant other is in law enforcement here in FL, and we can go from FL to MI and visit family there, however, my SO cannot carry in IL -- blame it on our bleeding liberal heart government.
In the meantime, please keep all of the NIU community in your thoughts
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