Gunman Takes Hostages at Colorado High School

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I watched quite a bit of coverage yesterday evening. They interviewed a friend of the girl who died, and she talked about how the girl had been having problems with people at school. It was very strange. Another girl talked about how the guy came into the school and was staring at her -- I think he said something to her but she told him she had to go to class and left, and then he stared into the classroom. That's just flat-out bizarre -- unless everything happened REALLY fast after that, how could some creepy staring guy be able to just hang out in the school? Why would he even be able to GET in the school?

There was mention about a family that moved out there to get away from Columbine. I don't understand why people think a more remote location is going to be safer -- I have always thought (and I have no evidence to back this up) that suburban or rural locations are more dangerous in terms of these tragedies that come from nowhere. There might be dangers in the city, but I think you're more likely to be aware of the possibility and know what the dangers are. I'd rather have that then the unexpected attack from out of nowhere for which nobody is prepared.