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Watching the responses here has been illuminating.

Mourning for the dead is generally for friends and family. Someone died NOW....and NOW....and NOW. All 3 are unknown to me and I am not planning to mourn them. I could read the paper and find thousands more where they came from and I'm not planning to mourn ANY of them. Expecting you to pause commentary to mourn for folks unknown to you is just as political as your post.

We have the victimization culture in America that awards particulary publicized deaths to a special status. It's total BS of course and part of the media empires desire to cash in on multiple deaths. A single death, 32 deaths or 35,000 deaths should not make any individual's death more significant. That's media nonsense that folks here have illustrated they buy into - or more honestly - have been indoctrinated by their environment and the media elements of our society.

A truly compassionate individual does not hesitate to mourn unless he/she is personally involved. For the average citizen, the only noteworthy thing should be , in fact, if such deaths were preventable and attention should be focused on such by the members of society.

If you are going to spend time mourning someone you don't know that's your business. Condemning others for not mourning someone they do not know is asinine - unless you plan to personally mourn the billions who will die in your lifetime that you never gave a second thought. Just because the media parades something around does not mean the public is required to go into special mourning periods. That's just the media cashing in on tragedy and, yes, glorifying it.

So Tom, from my perspective you are perfectly justified to question whether or not the recent changes to rules their impacted this tragedy.

To be honest I suspect it would make little difference except, perhaps, in the final casualty toll. From the little information I have heard, I suspect more could have been done if the University had better security practices and responded to the crisis more appropriately.

An armed society does make certain crimes less likely. Breaking and entering, for one. However, full on psychosis manifestations are usually not one of the crimes impacted.

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