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Keep An Eye On The Quiet Ones
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A 20-year-old former student at my alma mater has been arrested for threatening to kill his parents and shoot up the college campus, or at least telling someone he'd thought about doing that. It's Haverford College, which is a small Quaker school outside Philadelphia known for... well, let's just say that the students tend to be hyper-smart and somewhat weird. Not all of them, but there were always a lot of, shall we say, unusual folks in every class. (Stop pointing at me.) Anyway, as a Quaker school, violence is especially off-message there, but it does remind me that when you go to school (or work, or your apartment house), you're surrounded by people and you're always subject to one losing it. We shouldn't live like that, fearing that one of the people around us might be armed and might snap. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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