Robert McMillan said that his last column was prompted by his son saying "You have to show up somewhere," which reminded McMillan of a saying he himself had been using for years.

In his "It Is All About Showing Up" column he then happened to use the phrase "Being in the right place at the right time" which reminded me of all the times that a victim of a random, senseless shooting is "accused" of having been in the "wrong place at the wrong time."

That's what was recently said and written about the innocent 2-year-old boy who was accidentally shot to death while riding in his parents' SUV.

Of course, no one was actually blaming this baby for his own death, but I resent the merest suggestion that anything about this young child was "wrong".

It's the irresponsible, criminal low-lifes recklessly shooting off their guns on crowded city streets who are not only the ones in the wrong place at the wrong time, but who are "in the wrong", doing wrong things.

Such out-of-control people should all end up in the only "right" place for such menaces to society; in prison for life.

Richard Siegelman