Unfortunately, the most immediate topic on my mind at this moment (11:30 pm) is violence.



If you haven't read the news in the last week, a bright young woman named Eve Carson was murdered in the sleepy college town Chapel Hill, NC last week.  When the killing of UNC's student body president was announced, authorities did not have a suspect or a motive, and attributed it to a "random act of violence."  What exactly is a random act of violence?   We as a species have a powerful brain, capable of rationalizing and making decisions.  I find it hard to believe that a person randomly decides to hurt or kill someone.  Whoever committed this heinous act knew what he was doing when he pulled that trigger.  (side note: lethal injection is alive and well in North Carolina)  I think that the intent of the phrase "random act of violence" by the media is that the victim is random.  Perhaps we should modify this euphamism to "random victim of deliberate violence."

On a side note--if anyone's interested, I'm signing up for a Ladies' Handgun Course in Raleigh in April.  A proper Texan should know these things.