Blog #5: Responding to the “In Your Journal” Assignment

I don’t think the citizens of Jefferson county were justified in suing the county. They were probably feeling sad, angry, confused, and a plethora of other emotions and those emotions were what was causing them to sue. But, looking at it from an outside perspective, the way the police responded to the situation was the way they should’ve. It was “by the book.” Yes, maybe the book needed to be rewritten, but how would they have known that had there not been some event to show it? Columbine was that event; and the book was rewritten.