Temple U student shot and killed in off campus mid-day robbery.

[Anonymous]

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/11/29/samuel-sean-collington-north-philadelphia-temple-university-deadly-shooting-gun-violence-north-park-avenue/

Everything about this school we loved for my DC, except the area. So tragic.

[Anonymous]

Students were murdered in recent months at University of SC and Alabama. I know a kid who has been mugged at gunpoint twice at Salisbury.

College students are targets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/11/29/samuel-sean-collington-north-philadelphia-temple-university-deadly-shooting-gun-violence-north-park-avenue/

Everything about this school we loved for my DC, except the area. So tragic.

Wow really impressed how you made it about you.

[Anonymous]

So horrible. One can only hope the killer is found soon and brought to swift justice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students were murdered in recent months at University of SC and Alabama. I know a kid who has been mugged at gunpoint twice at Salisbury.

College students are targets.

College students are super easy marks to shake down.

[Anonymous]

The. Problem. Is. The. F#ck!ng. Guns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The. Problem. Is. The. F#ck!ng. Guns.

I’m anti-gun, but these incidents aren’t prompted by guns.

It’s standard thievery: mugging, assault, etc.

This will happen with or without guns (think: knives, hammers, fists). This happens all over Europe where they don’t have guns and simply use knives or hammers.

Candidly, I’m worried that the current racial and economic climate are fueling these incidents. And “rich” college kids are easy targets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The. Problem. Is. The. F#ck!ng. Guns.

The problem is a culture of crime and violence in the surrounding community.

[Anonymous]

We need gun control and much longer prison sentences for brutal thugs. The two should not be mutually exclusive.

[Anonymous]

I'm not familiar with Temple. I took a look on google maps and it seems it's not really a distinct campus, but one that is more interwoven in the city--kind of like VCU is to Richmond? Is that accurate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The. Problem. Is. The. F#ck!ng. Guns.

I’m anti-gun, but these incidents aren’t prompted by guns.

It’s standard thievery: mugging, assault, etc.

This will happen with or without guns (think: knives, hammers, fists). This happens all over Europe where they don’t have guns and simply use knives or hammers.

Candidly, I’m worried that the current racial and economic climate are fueling these incidents. And “rich” college kids are easy targets.

College kids do not get robbed and killed much in Europe. Have you lived there?

Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, bologna, Leipzig, Zurich, Vienna….

….public safety is one of the largest differences between us and Europe. There is a latent layer of violence and deviancy in the us that hangs like a cloud that is no where near the issue in Europe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not familiar with Temple. I took a look on google maps and it seems it's not really a distinct campus, but one that is more interwoven in the city--kind of like VCU is to Richmond? Is that accurate?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students were murdered in recent months at University of SC and Alabama. I know a kid who has been mugged at gunpoint twice at Salisbury.

College students are targets.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Students were murdered in recent months at University of SC and Alabama. I know a kid who has been mugged at gunpoint twice at Salisbury.

College students are targets.

+1

For what exactly? A stained sweatshirt and an old iphone? I don't even see how much they can possibly get from these kids to have this be worth while.

[Anonymous]

They don't carry cash so what do these thugs want?