Man, it's a peaceful town, even a White guy's required by law attended my car

[theking]

...at the gas station there:

What we know about the Bend, Oregon, elementary school shooting
Three children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and an adult teacher were killed at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend. A community member killed the 16-year-old suspect, police said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-school-shooting-elementary-bend-victims-shooter-death-what-know-rcna603793

Stopped by Bend years ago when they still required gas station attendants to fuel up your car so White men not only pumped my gas but also cleaned my auto's windshield at no extra cost:

When we passed by Bend last week, we stopped by to check this one out

[theking]

Bend also has a nice little fall there...

[theking]

Violent crime will tick up just a bit due to this school shooting...But still a peaceful town overall...

Bend, Oregon has a low crime rate that sits significantly below both the Oregon state average and the national average

People moving to Bend from larger Oregon cities — Portland, Eugene, Salem — almost always say the same thing in the first month: the city feels smaller and calmer than they expected, and the crime conversation they braced for simply never comes up the way it did back home. That instinct matches the data. With a violent crime rate of 1.7 per 1,000 residents and a property crime rate of 14 per 1,000 residents, Bend sits meaningfully below both Oregon and national averages (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024).

[Prude]

I don't think they were peaceful or kind. They had to
attend to your gas pump because they didn't trust
outsiders or anyone else around them to pump their
gases.

Small towns do that because they have limited resources.

But when a 16-year-old is already doing a mass killing, that's
a very violent community.

...at the gas station there:

Stopped by Bend years ago when they still required gas station attendants to fuel up your car so White men not only pumped my gas but also cleaned my auto's windshield at no extra cost: