Tucson shooting victim was also protesting at Kent State day of infamous shooting

[RamboLiberal]

Randy Gardner was settling into a chair, chatting with an elderly woman also waiting to meet U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords last Saturday, when the sound of gunshots collapsed his world into a blur of gray figures and ricocheting screams.

It was only much later, as he lay on the ground with a bullet wound in the right foot that his mind hurtled back: May 4, 1970. Kent State University.

"Here I am again," he thought, "dodging bullets."

As a sophomore at Kent State, Gardner had joined a group of students protesting the Vietnam War, when members of the Ohio National Guard suddenly opened fire. He sprinted toward a field and "hit the ground" to avoid the bullets. Later, he discovered four of his classmates were killed, including a girl from his English class.



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[frazzled]

1. How remarkably strange ...

There's almost some odd synchronicity to this story. Like a morality play or something.

I saw this earlier:

This week, we saw a white, Catholic, Republican federal judge murdered on his way to greet a Democratic woman, member of Congress, who was his friend and was Jewish. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year-old Mexican-American college student, who saved her, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon. And then it was all eulogized and explained by our African-American president. And, in a tragic event, that's a remarkable statement about the country. Mark Shields...PBS NewsHour

[snagglepuss]

5. And don't forget the Christina's birthdate. That her life was bookended with

such horrific tragic events adds to the strangeness.

[tavalon]

2. That's a small world moment

[Urban Prairie]

3. Pretty steep odds against being in the middle of two very infamous and heinious

incidents involving gunfire that resulted in the deaths and wounding of many innocent people like those two were...Yikes!!

[Odin2005]

4. Wow, first the little girl being born on 9/11, and now this. *SHUDDER*

[Raine]

6. So bizarre

really makes you think.

[RedArmy300]

7. That the right is mostly bark and not bite?

Seriously as someone said these high-and-mighty assholes talk smack and bitch until they get a bit of airtime and then when someone actually calls them on their bullshit they have them hauled off yet I have yet to hear of these fucks getting forced into a mental hospital, granted the guy probably needs it after what he went through but DAMN IT. My grandfather was a navy seabee in Vietnam and he believed in his country right or wrong but I think we'd be better off if the whole thing just collapsed, at least with anarchy people wouldn't be able to bunch up into these hiveminded monstrosities known as extremists.

I mean it's not like the Tea Party is worse right? Nevermind they essentially threaten to kill ANYONE their Republican masters say is a threat to the States and that they actually carry around guns like their friggen Rambo and spout death threats against anyone slightly not to the far faaaar right. My side of politics gets the worst of it and unfortunately not even most lefties want to back us up, better dead than red amirite?

I think Stalin was onto something with that whole 'one death is a tragedy a million is a statistic' thing because it seems the more people threatened the less anyone gives a damn.