One of the things you always hear after a shooting is the shock that it could happen here. And by here we mean anywhere because it can happen anywhere. Monday, it happened in Chapel Hill as a graduate student shot and killed a professor.
There is an awful lot that’s unknown still, not least of all motive, but the one blessing that came out of this crime is that it was a murder instead of a massacre. Naturally that’s not much comfort to the family and loved ones of the slain professor, but it could have been so much worse.