Uncomfortably Close to Home
"We are going to be the last mass school shooting." So said students in Parkland, Florida, a couple weeks ago. Of course, nobody -- likely not even the students who said that -- believed it to be literal truth. All it would take is for one person, somewhere, to go off. Yesterday morning, we had the 4th shooting on a college campus since Parkland. The first 3 didn't include any deaths, but 2 people died yesterday. According to news reports, a student killed his own parents, who were on campus to pick him up and take him home for spring break. In the current news cycle, an event like this seems sadly unremarkable. It can be dismissed as a "domestic dispute." No students were killed in the making of this story. Move along. But this one was at Central Michigan University , where Aaron is studying. Yesterday morning, he was preparing to come home for spring break. He had an 11am class, after which he was going over to the music building to practice. He was ...