Posted May 1, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

When you look at statistics, mass shootings are extraordinarily rare. The odds that you’ll be impacted are slim. Think about it. How many of you have had any ties to a victim or survivor at a mass shooting? Most don’t.

However, they happen often enough that it’s damn hard to convince most people of that fact.

Yesterday, yet another such shooting took place, this time at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.

Two people were killed and four others injured after a campus shooting Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, officials said.

[Name redacted], 22, was charged with two counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said early Wednesday.

Police were called late Tuesday afternoon after a gunman shot several students. A suspect was arrested inside an on-campus building, university police Chief Jeffrey A. Baker said.

“I can’t tell you the sadness of the entire community to know that a situation like this has occurred on our campus,” Baker said late Tuesday. “We are all pretty much devastated.”

Three of the injured are in critical condition, according to Baker.

[The alleged shooter] was also charged with four counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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