I'm not a court reporter but my clients are all court reporters (I'm a proofreader)...it's making me almost physically ill thinking about the poor court reporter being killed in that way, since so many of my clients work in courtrooms. I feel terrible for everyone, but it really personalizes it for me, imagining one of my longtime friends/clients in that situation.
Isn't it the truth? We are a group among few, aren't we? Most of us actually LOVE lawyers and the law. You have to have a really weird sense of humor to do this work.
Who would have ever thought that a job like that could be this dangerous.
And God bless proofreaders!!