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Right, I have a feeling that the "spotting" thing and the "not snipers" is the university using some sort of literal definition to dodge the facts that there was a man with a rifle and scope on their roofs.
I don't agree with it, and as I said in the other threads (or maybe it was here, they're starting to blur), I don't think the police are even trained properly enough to handle traffic stops, let alone a rifle at a protest in a university. But I don't know how to reconcile the, very real threat based on rising tensions, and other terrorist attacks, that someone could walk into one of these protests and hurt a lot of people.
How do we prevent this from happening.
One person suggested that this is a systemic issue, that these attacks (both from outside and from inside from other americans) are solved with better living conditions, better mental health care, better health care period, etc. etc. That happy people don't do this stuff. But the fact is, that number is falling and very quickly and our only plan (in the states) is apparently to have a fucking sniper on a roof.
This is sickness manifest.