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the state is a buzz about the threats made by a mtsu student. and so they should. when i first heard about it yesterday i was proud of the fact that the school took the emails of “large-scale devastation” threats serious enough to cancel classes and secure the campus. as far as i could see, they had learned from the tragedy at virginia tech and shut it down. BUT THEN COMES THE BITCHING. it seems i have read the same article over and over again on different websites. but the comments have been caraaaaazy. in ‘the tennesean’ people are bringing race to their comments. some claim that this dumb ass boys threat were blown out of proportion. that the campus over-reacted. that of course the person who made these threats was black, because as we all know the prison’s are filled with black people and they are the only ones who commit crimes. are you freaking kidding me? the officials didn’t know who made the threats when they cancelled school. and it shouldn’t matter what color the boy was. what did matter was that his threats were serious enough to take action. some also say that the emails and notifications weren’t sent out fast enough or didn’t reach everyone. jesus h christ. when nobody dies. it’s a good day. the course taken wasn’t perfect but it worked-this time. and maybe after 1 scare under their belt it will work great the next time.
when i read the dnj, the comments were thankful that a potential crisis was averted. yeah because we live here. we go to mtsu or know someone who does and it would be a bad day indeed if the school had ignored the possiblity of threat. cause god knows that mtsu can be screwed up with a lot of things.

so the way i see it, we are dealing with boy who had a bad decision day and decided that if he sent some threatening emails he could get out of midterms. (yeah like that could happen, if not today then another. you don’t get out of mid-terms) or he wasn’t right in the head. either way he made a bad choice and should have to pay for that bad choice. or it could be a cry for help. whatever. but it could have been. if the boy had really wanted to hurt someone he wasn’t going to announce it. he would have just done it and we would be dealing with a huge loss. theatening people with death is just not the way to go. and he could be black, white, yellow, purple or chartreuse and i would still feel the same way. there needs to be huge consequences and he needs to pay for his actions. because we all know that there are going to be other crazy kids out there who think that by doing something similar that they will be able to get out of a problem.

cause some people are always trying to blame their problems on someone else. but that's a whole 'nother rant