Over the last couple of weeks I have just been in awe at the way violence is raging in our socitey.  After the ruthless slayings of two young ladies in college...  I mean what in the world?  Parents are sending their children off to college to be killed.  Unimaginable pain.  I can't even begin to think of how parents are feeling who already have kids out there fending for themselves... and then the graduating class of '08.  Anxiety levels are probably higher now than ever before.

Now some will say this happens all over the world evey day, in a number of cities and small towns.  It isn't anything new to society, it just made it to the media's line of focus.  Well to that I say there is a great possiblity that this is the painful truth.  I know that everyday people die... for a number of reasons.  I also am aware that even in my own state, at the University of Maryland that there are several people assalted, raped, robbed and harrassed by people who are sick in the head and the heart. 

To think that these girls were killed and left on the side of the road and then for what?  We all know that college students don't have much, and what they do have isn't even theirs.  It's probably a gift from someone who loves them.  I know when I was in school my family sent me all kinds of things.  I shared it with whoever needed if I had extra.

Crimes like this are so randomn.  The killers don't stalk, they randomly choose someone to target.  There is rarely any rhyme or reason.   That means it could happen to you are me at any given moment.  We have to pay attention to our surroundings.  We have to be careful which people we choose to let in to our homes.  I remember being in college and how most of us kept our doors unlocked, or hell open.  I have fallen asleep in rooms and homes with doors open.  The most that ever wandered in was a bird.  We knew it was wrong, but there was a sense of safety on our campus.

To think "it could never happen here" is so silly, but we all have to admit that there is at least one place  you go where you think... "Okay, I can let my guards down".  However no matter where you are be it at home, church, your car, hospital, exercising on a trail or a track.. .you must keep your guards up and think smart. 

I hate to have to think of keeping myself armed at all times, however am I to just wait like a sitting duck and not be prepared for when it "goes down"?