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[quote=Anonymous]I am so sad for everyone at Brown.

As a professor, I think about the possibility of a campus shooting multiple times per week. It’s doesn’t consume me, but it’s a passing thought. It’s not politics, it’s life on a college campus. I imagine K-12 teachers think about it too. It’s always a thought in the background of all the other things you’re doing.

It’s tricky on a college campus because you teach and have meetings in various buildings. You have to look around each one and think about what you would if you heard gunshots or got a text alert about an active shooter. Turn off the lights and barricade the door? Climb out the window and run? I don’t know. Would I put myself in front of my students in the face of an active shooter, like that VT professor who survived the Holocaust? Don’t have the answer to that one either. I have my own children who still need me.

We’ve had final exams this week too. I noticed a police car parked near a building which is an unusual sight. I thought to myself “Maybe they heard about a threat. Would make sense for someone to target finals week when there are a bunch of sitting ducks in the buildings focused on other things”.

I have an email from a student that I haven’t yet responded to, who is asking for a higher grade. Will he come find me and retaliate because he feels like I ruined his life because I didn’t bump his grade up? Unlikely, but not impossible.

This is the reality. You go about your day knowing there are a significant number of mentally unstable students, who can easily get guns, and that there isn’t much that can prevent it.

I hate it. This country is a seriously f***ed up place. I have an answers. I just hope my luck never runs out. [/quote]

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