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Is it safe?

11 March 2009

Yeah, if you read the U.S. press (and, to some extent, the Mexican press too), it sounds like there’s a whole lotta killin’ goin’ on.  But, it’s cops, and gangsters and those nearest and dearest to them.  Not, as in other parts of the world, “ordinary people going about their business”:

(CNN) — At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a shooting spree that spanned two small southern Alabama towns, state officials confirmed. The gunman, who turned the gun on himself, and the wife and child of a sheriff’s deputy were among those killed.

The shooting started in a neighborhood in Samson, a town of about 3,000 about 15 miles north of the Florida border, just after 4 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) and ended 12 miles away at a manufacturing plant in Geneva, said Alabama state Sen. Harri Anne Smith, who represents Geneva County.

“He was shooting at just ordinary people going about their business,” Smith told CNN, saying she had been briefed by state and local law enforcement.

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