Students ask “How Many More?”
“This will be a national story for about 48 hours. Those folks will swoop in, leave and move on. It’ll be an MSU story, part of our community story, forever. And, for some, a new fear and a loss of peace will be part of it.“
After the 48 hours passes? Similar to the other shooting stories, this story will also be thrown on top of all the other stories of shootings.
“Michigan State shooter stole lives and peace of mind,” lansingstatejournal.com, Graham Couch Lansing State Journal.
It is becoming common place in the US. Just another shooting and back to normal now. Move along and get on with your lives. The dead will be another addition to the numbers shot is 2023.
As reported by Shelton Krause also of the Lansing State Journal . . . “Eight people who were shot Monday on Michigan State University’s campus were students. The gunman had no known ties to the school.“
The shooter took his own life “after being confronted by police on Lansing’s north side.“
No reason determined yet of why, why the shooter chose Michigan State University to enact his anger against young college students.
Students were flipping tables to hide from the shooter.
MSU junior Ramiz Malik . . . “After the third, fourth and fifth shot, everybody started panicking and ran.”
Lansing State Journal reporter Graham Couch added;
“Not that they weren’t prepared for it. They grew up in an era of active-shooter drills and regularly seeing news of shootings in schools and on college campuses.“
Besides the struggle to get a decent education, college students must also be prepared to survive attacks at college. Pitiful.
“Having that base and background training in high school and all that stuff really did help me in that situation,” Ramiz Malik of Canton, Michigan.
Students will still be attempting to process an experience which none of them were prepared for and never should have experienced.
(AP – Feb 15) — A white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday after relatives of his victims confronted him with pain and rage caused by his racist attack.
Anger briefly turned physical at Payton Gendron’s sentencing when a man in the audience rushed at him. The man was quickly restrained; prosecutors later said he wouldn’t be charged. The proceeding then resumed with more emotional outpouring from people who lost loved ones or were themselves wounded in the attack.
Gendron, whose hatred was fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online, cried during some of the testimony and apologized to victims and their families in a brief statement.
Some angrily condemned him; others quoted from the Bible or said they were praying for him. Several pointed out that he deliberately attacked a Black community far from his nearly all-white hometown.
“You’ve been brainwashed,” Wayne Jones Sr., the only child of victim Celestine Chaney, said as sobs rose from the audience. “You don’t even know Black people that much to hate them. You learned this on the internet, and it was a big mistake.”
“I hope you find it in your heart to apologize to these people, man. You did wrong for no reason,” Jones said.
Gendron pleaded guilty in November to crimes including murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hate, a charge that carried an automatic life sentence.
“There can be no mercy for you, no understanding, no second chances,” Judge Susan Eagan said as she sentenced him.
Gendron, 19, also faces separate federal charges that could carry a death sentence if the U.S. Justice Department chooses to seek it. His defense attorney said in December that Gendron is prepared to plead guilty in federal court as well to avoid execution. New York state does not have the death penalty. …
Sadly, the ammosexual gundamentalists regard these tragedies as the price the victims must pay for their right to satisfy their fetish.