[Fighting Irish]

The location of the shooting is far from a "Rough Area". It's hicktown USA. Ashland is a suburb of Richmond, Va. and is populated with pickup trucks and home to Randolph Macon College. Train tracks cut through a stretch of civil war era antibellum homes...............and that's it.

95 is a mile away and is a great stopping place for gas, dinner and a motel or two. Other than that....it's flyover country.

I deer and turkey hunted for years about a mile from where tonights episode took place.

[inflorida]

The location of the shooting is far from a "Rough Area".

I know. Why would the networks say this? I always thought of Ashland as a sleepy, safe town.

[floriduh voter]

I was transcribing from CNN verbatim. I'm in Florida, never been up there. That was their characterization of the area.

I happen to like Ponderosa.

[EverOnward]

The location of the shooting is far from a "Rough Area". It's hicktown USA.

It's God's country. I love it there.

[browardchad]

Take everything the media says with a grain of salt, especially if it's breaking. They say things for the sake of saying things, and to give the impression they know what's going on, while frantically calling affiliates in the area to bail them out.