Just imagine getting this text from your kid:

[Are_grits_groceries]

@jbjpublisher:
Rattled tonight by text and call from daughter at #FSU while in library during shooting. Praying for all involved.


I can't even....

[misterhighwasted]

1. Fear, panic, dread

Good morning grits

[shenmue]

2. Mercy

I wonder what this shooter's 'reasons' will have been.

[vlyons]

22. Bullets are better than books because

might makes right.

[kag]

3. Wow!

No words.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. I remember having to text my wife when there was a shooting in our office building last year.

And how bizarre it must have sounded.

[lobodons]

5. Whats my kid doing

I'd want to know what my kids doing at the library at 26 minutes past midnight.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Did you ever go to college?

Sleep schedules are pretty much thrown on their head for most college students.

12:26 am is still early evening for many college students, trust me. Whether it's to do homework or to party, a college student's day ends late.

[reflection]

9. Hear, hear.

I pulled so many all-nighters my junior and senior year of engineering I lost count of them. I'd go in there armed with a thermos of coffee, cigarettes, and white crosses (look it up if you need to), and hunker down. Would take my finals when the sun came up, and then crash for about 18 hours starting that afternoon when exams were done. Good times.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. I've got some legendary late night college homework stories.

I'll never forget in my senior year realizing at about 10:00 pm I had to do a major 20 page paper on Animal Communication that was due the next morning, sitting down in my dorm room fueled by multiple cups and cups of coffee and listening to music in my headphones, and somehow my creativity went on overdrive and the words just flowed onto my paper. Finished at about 4:00 or 5:00 am, but I'll be damned if I didn't earn an A on that paper.

[KingCharlemagne]

25. I pulled an all-nighter reading C. Vann Woodward's "The Origins of

the New South" and writing a book review of it for my History of the American Post-Bellum South class. Got an 'A' on the paper but it was an eminently forgettable effort (not Woodward's book which is a classic.)

[Tess49]

15. White crosses were a mainstay when I was in college. Haven't thought about those in years. n/t

[m-lekktor]

34. they were very thin and always chipped. we also called them crossroads!

it's been awhile.

[Phentex]

13. I liked to do my laundry then. No crowds. My son has figured out the same...

I told him my stories of writing papers in the laundry room while watching the clothes spin in the dryer. This is his first year of college and he said 6:00 am works about the same as midnight.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Yeah, I was a late night clothes washer myself in college as well. nt

[Coventina]

7. Our local university library is open 24 hours.

Many students who live on campus use it.

It's great for students who have to study after working a night shift somewhere.

[name not needed]

8. probably sexting and listening to rap music

goddamned kids these days

[Rex]

10. Studying, believe it or not people are sitting in college libraries at 3am.

[tblue37]

11. It is near the end of the semester. Many are studying for exams, working on essays

and research papers, or meeting with classmates to work on projects or presentations.

In college, students often have to pull all-nighters or near all-nighters to get their work in by deadline or to study for major exams.

I teach college English. Teachers also have to stay up to the ugly hours of the morning to grade papers and other work, especially this late in the term, but unlike many students, faculty usually have their own place for getting that late-night work done. Students who live in dorms or with inconsiderate roommates in apartments might have to go to the library to have enough quiet to get anything done.

[treestar]

21. I never had to do that

Not in college or law school. So it depends on the student

[RedCappedBandit]

17. Really?

There's a fucking gunman running through the school and what you're wondering about is why students would be in the library after midnight?

[Tsiyu]

29. "If they don't want to get shot, they should stay out of the library so late"

I managed a pub on campus that was open until 2 am.

The kids would study at the library across the street and then line up right at 2am to get burritos and pancakes( no beer after midnight.)

I suspect someone has never been on a college campus.

[gollygee]

18. Wow. Either you didn't go to college, or you have a short memory.

If you want to do well, there are lots of nights where you're studying until after midnight. Particularly if you have a job and are juggling the job and school.

[magical thyme]

19. studying for midterms?

It's been a few decades since I was in college, but iirc, midterms then thanksgiving, then another month of study, then finals, then Christmas break.

[BeyondGeography]

26. Slow dancing in a back aisle somewhere to Let's Get It On

Libraries, you know.

[Niko]

32. Let's add "library" to the list then

I guess you need to add "library" to the list of places people can't go in the United States of America without getting shot.

Fix your stupid fucking gun laws.

[csziggy]

33. FSU Strozier library has been open 24 hours a day for decades

Since I was a student at FSU and worked at the library in the mid 1970s. They closed at night over the Christmas break but stayed open over the Thanksgiving weekend for students getting ready for finals and finishing papers. I worked overnight for a couple of Thanksgiving weekends - checking out and reshelving books.

The only other time I remember Strozier closing was when a hurricane came through. It was scary for some of us who lived in substandard housing and had planned to spend the storm in the library building. They threw us out of the library as the storm bands were coming in and we had to find other places to stay as the storm winds hit. Since it was marked as a civil defense shelter, we'd assumed it would stay open. Silly us!

[LibDemAlways]

16. My daughter attends UC Santa Barbara. Back in May

I was watching tv on a Friday night when reports started coming in of a shooting rampage in Isla Vista. The location of the first shootings was on the block where my daughter lives. She had mentioned that she was planning on going to the movies that night and I was hoping to God she did. Finally heard from her about an hour later that she was, indeed, fine. But that was one hell of an awful hour and all I can think of is the parents who did not receive good news that night.

A couple of weks later my daughter bought a box of kleenex at the local market and found a twisted, mangled bullet inside. Even that was too close for comfort as far as I'm concerned.

[SCVDem]

20. As if that's important.

Now if there was a man in the library attempting to register voters you would see rethugs go nuts!

Background checks going once? Twice? Bueller?

[valerief]

23. But, but what about the gun owner's freedoms????

[Initech]

24. Welcome to gun country.

[cyberswede]

27. Jesus. I can't even imagine.

[oldandhappy]

28. Hard to imagine.

Impossible world for parents.

[Doctor_J]

30. They are in Florida. of course there is someone with a gun nearby

Library, diner, gas station, park, etc.

[UglyGreed]

31. SMH!!!

[Rex]

35. Then imagine watching the NRA come to town, but not to gloat over the dead.

NO that would be immoral, they come to town to remind all the brain dead that Obama is coming for their guns and they better just remember - a few dead kids is a small price to pay to avoid a Marxist takeover by the dam liberals! Then they slather themselves in gun oil and have a massive firearm orgy.

Better yet don't image that last part...

[steve2470]

36. I saw that and almost posted it myself, what a horrible tweet to get from your kid ! nt