Anyone notice? Or is it just me?
School shooting in NIU. Front page story-for two days. That's it. That's all the coverage we wanted. A couple of shots showing sobbing students, a couple of memorial crosses. That's all we needed. We got our fix.
I wasn't young enough to understand Columbine, though I did see the coverage. In fact, I wasn't even mature enough to understand what was really going on with 9-11. But I've read. I know what happened. I know what significance it had.
The only reason VT was in the news for as long as it was my have been the high death toll. NIU had single digits. But does that really matter? There was a shooting at a school. In the USA. The fact is, it can happen anywhere. But that's not my point.
Are we to the point that we don't really care? Just another school shooting. Just another few murders. Just another few people off the planet??!? Are we going to consider it another bimonthly 'normal' occurence like we view suicide bombings in Israel or genocides in Africa. We as Americans HAVE become numb. We don't care. We get on with our lives. And I really don't have any ideas on how to change that, except as individuals. But then again, who cares?
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