This morning, students were shot and one was killed at a suburban high school in Ohio. Sure enough, when interviewed, local residents said "that sort of stuff doesn't happen here". The sad truth is that violence can occur anywhere, and I'd almost prefer the callous "What else is new" sentiment than the "this can not / should not happen here" view.

Two men were shot on Myrtle Avenue in Jersey City on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Called to Myrtle, between Ocean Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive at 3 p.m. on reports of a shooting, cops found a 25-year-old Bayonne man lying on the porch of a house with a gunshot wound in his right shoulder and a bullet fragment lodged in his tongue, according to police reports.
While there, cops were approached by a 27-year-old Leonard Street man who said he was shot in the leg in the backyard of a nearby house, reports said.
Neither man identified who shot them, police reports said.
Both men were taken to the Jersey City Medical Center to be treated for non-life threatening injuries, reports said.
A 42-year-old woman who came out of the Myrtle Avenue address where the first man was lying told police that a bullet smashed through her window and a projectile hit the back of her leg, reports said, adding the woman refused medical attention for the cut she suffered.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... hot_on_myrtle_avenue.html