You know, if this happens every time something bad happens, we're going to be living in necropolises of memorials.
This is one thing a lot of Europeans I've talked to think Americans are nuts about. If something blew up there or whatever, they just rebuilt it.
(Note, they're going to use $40 million in state money to do this, despite IL being nearly broke. S'okay, they'll just raise taxes!)
Site of fatal NIU shootings to be demolished
(CNN) -- The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday.
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office confirmed that the state will provide the funding for the university to demolish Cole Hall, the site of Steven Kazmierczak's February 14 rampage.
Cole Hall will be replaced by a high-tech classroom building to be named Memorial Hall, the office said.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/27/niu.building/index.html
Kazmierczak's girlfriend told CNN that the 27-year-old had stopped taking an antidepressant three weeks before the shooting.
Jessica Baty said Kazmierczak had been taking Xanax, used to treat anxiety, and Ambien, a sleep agent, as well as the antidepressant Prozac.
Baty did not say whether Kazmierczak stopped taking Prozac abruptly or whether he consulted with his psychiatrist before doing so.
She said Kazmierczak had been taking the antidepressant for obsessive-compulsive tendencies and anxiety caused by school.
Baty told CNN that, during their two-year courtship, she had never seen him display violent tendencies, and she expressed bewilderment over the cause of the rampage. "He was anything but a monster," Baty said. "He was probably the nicest, most caring person ever."
Bad building! Bad, bad building!
Not that that will stop them, but people are annoyed.
Which is a good thing. Even the most indoctrinated has to wake up sometime...