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This is terrifying. I am speechless now. One thing comes to my mind is to avoid those encounters as possible, maybe those states as whole. Just sad.

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That's absurd. This took place in *Olathe, Kansas- which is adjacent to the Kansas City metro area that straddles the KS MO border. This is as much an anomoly here as it would be when it happens anywhere else: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/activeshooter_incidents_...

Are you sure about that? Kansas City has a problem with this sort of stuff:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article134041159....

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-kansas-city...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_Park_Jewish_Community...

You could say this about any city that has enough people in it:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C5...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Paris+Terror+Threat&rlz=1C5C...

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C5...

I think that this stuff is really, truly tragic and that one of the takeaways is that terrorism is really effective. Please don't be terrorized.

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