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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Professor.  Thank you for your noble work also.

It is beyond sad that our children and teachers have to think about this, that our country actively chooses to endanger them.

My heart is so heavy right now. We live among so many truly evil people, many of whom are in charge of making our anti-life laws.

GOP is the Pro-Death party. They hate babies, children, and adults. [/quote]

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