I am a student at UNCW, the same age as Samuel Paul Flinn. I find it pretty offensive that such a tragic event and the death of someone so young could lead someone to calling a school with a population climbing over twelve thousand people thugs. We are not thugs. We are not all bad people. Bad things happen everyday to every place and all sorts of people. That should not reflect back on the student population that it happened to affect. Do you think Virginia Tech is full of terrorists after what happened on April 16th. The situation at hand is bad enough, a life was lost that shouldn't have been. Must you belittle our university community as a result? I hope you won't let your children come here if they hold the same simple minded mentality as you.