Purdue University Shooting
Yesterday there was a murder at Purdue University in the electrical engineering building, just a couple hours from where I live (I go to Indiana University) and where a pretty large number of my best friends go to school.
In fact, to make it hit even closer to home, my very best friend and the other member of my band cloudcover is an engineering major at Purdue and spends most of his time in the exact building where someone was just murdered yesterday. He wasn't at the building during the shooting, but that's not really the point.
It's a terrible truth, but shootings like this happen quite often, but when they happen this close to home; this close to the ones you care about, it instills a fear in you unlike anything in the world. What makes it even scarier is that no one can establish a motive. I can only speculate, but if this was really just a random killing for no real reason...it's hard to want to go outside knowing that something like that just happens.
Anyway, there's not a whole lot of discussion possible here, but this is a current event and one that I'm very familiar with and that's part of what this board is about so I figured I'd let it all out here. ****'s not cool.
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