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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by tibbon on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:48PM (#5574679)
Agreed. I generally feel incredibly safe around Cambridge in general- let alone on Boylston St near the library, or anywhere on MIT's campus. At most I'd expect to have something stolen, car broken into or a common mugging around there- not a random shooter running around.
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by hga on Friday April 19, 2013 @09:06AM (#5576394)
Hmmm, it was a year after I left the area, but in 1992 a student was stabbed to death in front of the main library by a local juvenile sociopath (who only served 10 years, Massachusetts "justice" being what it is), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yngve_Raustein. And that was not much of a surprise based on the dozen years I'd spent in and around MIT before I left.

Has it really gotten a lot safer. not counting this unique sort of incident?

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