Very tragic and saddening to think you can't send your children off to school w/o worrying whether they will come home. Had a dad on local news last night running around near the campus frantically as he was unable to contact either of his two kids who are students at UNCC. Campus security acted very quickly and effectively; that and the fact shooter had a pistol rather than a semi-automatic prevented it from being an even greater tragedy. Homicides way up in Charlotte this year. There was a front page article in yesterdays' Charlotte Observer on the marked uptick in homicides and then this. Something's got to change - too many guns.