Re: Not always joking, it seems

"Wim Lewis" <wiml@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:fp2uvm$vs7$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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?

Often, if you count things like the Trek Episodes where people got 
violent under the influence of a MUF.

Karl Johanson