GEORGE KENNEDY: How Safe is Columbia from Threats of Gunfire?

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Missouri School of Journalism

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday in a student-housing complex in south Columbia. The same night, four young people were shot and injured outside the appropriately named Ruckus bar on Business Loop 70.

Those are just the most recent reports of gunplay that have some of us longtime residents wondering whether our town is becoming dangerous. We’re not St. Louis or Chicago, but we’re not exactly peaceful Collegetown USA any more.

Or are we?

Read the complete column online at the Missourian

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