(Japanese news media is also hot on this story, covering the reactions of many Japanese students who were on campus there.) No shortage of them having second thoughts about safety in American hinterland. Which is really said--the numbers of Japanese studying in the USA were dwindling already due to perceptions of lack of safety, which all of us here have tried to counter. Who could blame them now (at least those up there in the beautiful hills of Virginia today)?
Wow. How’d they get that drawing up so fast? (Unless it’s a page from a manual somewhere.)
You are still more likely to be hit by lightning on a college campus than be shot and killed by a random gunman.
But nobody calls for a lockdown every time thunderstorms are predicted.
And I bet you are more likely to be in an earthquake in Japan than be shot on a college campus in America.
It is really . . . curious . . .
But I felt much safer in Mainland China—until Tienanmen—when few felt safe. And, was much freer about what I said in Chinese universities—even about God—as long as I was asked first by a student.
How far we have come from our founding. Horrible.