Re: Not always joking, it seems

Wim Lewis wrote:
> In article <Xns9A44BA56C3CFFgenewardsmithsbcglob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Gene Ward Smith  <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Joe King, a spokesman for the university, gave an official
>> statement, saying: 'There has been a shooting on campus.
>> Several people have been taken away by ambulance. The DeKalb
>> campus is shut down.'"
>
> 6 dead (incuding the shooter) and 16 wounded, according to the
> NYTimes.
>
> On the bright side, the school's response to the shooting sounded
> pretty well thought out and executed.
>
> It seems like there've been more school shootings recently than
> before.
> I don't know how to determine that though. (If you follow up to 
> this,
> please restrict to .fandom.)
>
> On-topic, how have SF stories dealt with random murderous 
> outbusrsts?

Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_ accepted both terrorism and murderous 
rampages as a fact of life.   He invented terms for both: the 
terroists were called "partisans", and the rampagers "muckers", 
because they were people who reached their limit and ran amok.