It seems like such a 'off handed' comment, doesn't it?? I mean, we talk about all kinds of things here and there.....but when something like this happens, I can't help but try and see 'beyond the horizion'.

Society today is a myriad of contradiction. We have breakthroughs in medicine and science, and yet we still find ourselves mired deeply in the 'art of war'. We strain to teach the youth how to 'pay it forward' in the most positive ways, and yet things like this happen..........


http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vt...ting/index.html


My heart, my prayers and my most fervent and sincere wishes for peace and change go out to any and all who are affected. Not just with this disgusting tragedy, but with whatever 'brush' people have with 'The Apocalypse'..............

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I noticed this too.. it was the top story on MSN today when I signed in earlier. This is a tradgic loss of life.

I'm reading it off of yahoo now.

I'd like to think there's a logical explanation for this type of thing. It's more than just a guy going out and shooting people up. It's like, there's too many people in the world, more than in history. Sure, that's OBVIOUS but it's like, when a civilization becomes a certain size, this is simply part of nature? Like, did the Aztecs have nutty guys running around killing people? Were there people in Stalin's age that went postal?

I can't help but think that there are simply too many people in the world. There are problems not being properly addressed, people not attended to, media out of control, etc. We've had school shootings. We've had rave shootings. We had a guy shot in this lil liberal town of mine recently. It's just bizarre, to say the least. We ask what's wrong with those people. With the way the world is, it's not that hard to figure out. We just lack the proper coping mechanisms, as my mother would say.

The latest from MSNBC is that the person responsible is a male wearing a Maroon Hat and black jacket in his 20's.
Apparently he's killed 31 people and turned the gun on himself

This is such a sad day for humanity..

I wouldn't say a "sad day for humanity". It's a sad for people who try to do the best to each other and who care for each other. This guy who shoot is (was, since he is dead) part of humanity and I don't think such a guy have a little care for nothing or for someone.

I let here my sincere hope that the ones who lost somebody on this big stupidity, can find a strong place under God's arms. My best wishes for them.

God bless them all.

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I see things like this tragedy and think-"our society is in free-fall-like the last days of the Roman Empire"................

But then I remember all the blessings in my life.................how lucky I am..............

Sadly this sort of occurrence seems to be more and more common in the world we find ourselves in today, and not just in the USA. There have been too many instances like this even in the seemingly safe place I live in, Australia. Whether it is a symptom of a society in decline, or just a random acts by lone nutjobs makes no difference to the victims and their families. They have to deal with the intensely personal grief and anger at the injustice of their loved one's deaths. We can only imagine how heartbroken they are. It's so easy to forget that every single one of those victims was someone's treasured daughter or son or spouse or sibling etc, not a nameless statistic forgotten after a few days. May God bless the victims and their families, and may He protect us all from the sort of random, brutal, evil events that took place today.

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