The Midwest, always a bastion of family & faith, has been the scene of several recent shootings. Since Christmas, there have been shootings leaving dead and/or injured in Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Ill.); a Nebraska mall (Omaha, Ne.); a Lane Bryant store (Tinley Park, Ill.) and a city council meeting (Kirkwood, Missouri). This spate of shootings would be alarming anywhere but to those of us originally from the Midwest, it's particularly shocking. You hear of this sort of thing primarily on the coasts & large cities, but these smaller towns & cities have, until now, been fairly out of the news regarding random, senseless shootings.
It's a sad sign of the times.
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