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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That school was 100% off our list years ago.  Not sure why any parent would send their kid to that awful town.   My youngest really wanted to go to UVA. I told him he could if he wanted to pay for it himself.  We would not support it.  That reality was enough to change his mind.[/quote]

Don’t make this about you.[/quote]

It’s not about me.  It’s about keeping my kids as safe as possible. That town is a disaster. [/quote]

The world is a disaster. Let us know where this magical place is where your kids—ahem, adults—will be perfectly safe.[/quote]

I have five college grads.  Four different colleges.  Zero serious incidents at any of their schools.  We had one scare that turned out to be just rumor.  Those parents sent their kids to college trusting that they would be safe.  The college and that god-awful town failed.  And yes.  I’m pi$$ed.  Hope the lawsuits end the school as we know it. [/quote]

NP. I have zero connection to UVA, so no boosterism is behind this: How did the college fail? You know nothing yet about the exact circumstances of the shooting. Unless somehow there was a UVA police officer right there and that officer failed to act? Nothing at all said about that or any other details yet. There is too little known for anyone to pontificate wtih such certainty about any security or other failings, at this point. And if you think colleges, UVA or any other, can truly stop someone who is on campus with a gun, you are incredibly naive or you send your kids to some fortress school. If this had happened inside a building? That's one thing,  and building security would be appropriately called to account in that case. But in or at a garage, possibly on board a team bus etc.? What would be the failing there? Are colleges supposed to build walls around their entire campuses and have armed guards at the gates? Or 24/7 armed guards on post at every...garage? You're overreacting dramatically with zero information. Save the fury for when details are known and it's clearer whether there was or wasn't a specific security breach.  -- parent of a senior at another college, BTW. [/quote]
People want to believe that they have a lot of control over their safety.[b] PP would like to believe she did all the right things to protect her children because the idea that random violence can happen anywhere at anytime to anyone is terrifying[/b].[/quote]

Except this was a targeted attack, not a random act.  Most violent crime occurs between people who know each other. The chances of being harmed by a random shooter is practically non-existent.  There are better things to worry about. [/quote]
This time former teammates were targeted. Next time it could be a sorority or a particular math class or science lab or people socializing outdoors on campus. You’re feeling like this wasn’t random violence because it happened to a specific group of people, but anybody could belong to a group that gets targeted.[/quote]

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