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A Marine recruiter told everyone to run.

An armed Marine recruiter might have been able to stabilize the situation. But, nooooo! They're not allowed to be armed!

No, they can't have guns, but maybe they did and didn't use them. If they had, it probably would have been suicide by Marine recruiter, a shootout or who knows? The head Marine office in Great Lakes, IL, issued a statement because it was so close to a Marine recruiting office.

SkyDancer, yes they would probably have been in big trouble even if they saved a lot of lives. When the story first broke, it sounded like the Marine office was the target, so naturally my mind raced to Chattanooga. Glad it wasn't that.

The article has been updated on the Quad City Times website, is under most read on the front page. It's very fortunate it wasn't worse than it was.

There may be a little more about it, but some of it we may never know. We have had a steep uptick in shots fired lately.