[Diddle E. Squat]

Battlefield? One child has been shot at, out of more than 3 million.

How long are you willing to keep the kids out of school, if this sniper isn't caught? The risk is of being shot is about the same as catching W. Nile or Lyme disease, so should parents keep their kids indoors until they are 18? The odds are higher to be struck by lightning, so should kids stay home everytime thunderstorms are predicted? There is the real risk of catching meningitis, should kids no longer go to school, church, or recreation?

[nicmarlo]

. . . so should parents keep their kids indoors until they are 18 . . .

You are completely over-reacting to point of absurdity. As I've said, I'd keep my child home tomorrow and see how she felt and what security steps were being taken for the following days.....and where she'd be with that emotionally. If I believed that she'd be safe and she wasn't emotionally upset, then off she'd go. But I would want to know steps were taken in the area for hers and the other children's safety. The sniper might still be in the area, ready to go to a school in this neighborhood....