I know everyone is saying something about what happened yesterday and I feel like I can’t post today and not say anything about it when I have so much on my mind. While the act was a huge tragedy, I am not surprised. I’m not shocked. I feel terrible though. To die with fear in your heart must be one of the most terrible ways to pass on. To have your life ripped from you by someone who is so off in their way of thinking, is a most terrible thing indeed.

But I know that these tragedies have happened before, and will happen again. I know soon after the shock and grief has worn off, the media frenzy will begin, shouting out those buzz words like “fear” and “danger” and “evil”. We’ll all be wondering what could have done to prevent that terrible incident from happening. And I do believe that if the school had responded quicker to the first shooting that maybe things would have turned out different. But I’ll tell you, whatever preparations and precautions we take in the future, something of that magnitude will inevitably happen again. It always finds a way.

I don’t think it’s really much of a phenomenon that has happened recently either. The media is touting this to be the most deadly college mass murder in this country’s history, but it’s not the deadliest school mass murder that has happened in the good ol’ U.S. In the 1920’s a farmer drove his truck full of explosives into an elementary school and killed 42 people (mostly children around the age of 7), and that was two days after he murdered his own wife and an hour after blowing up his own farm.

Nope, sadly, some people will just go berserk. Whatever emotional upset they have to deal with, big or small, some people just can’t hack it and turn violent.

My roundabout point with all this is, let’s just try and be understanding and kind to others. If you notice someone having a hard time in life (I know it’s not always very obvious), give them someone who understands. Let’s not alienate eachother. And just hope for the best, because that’s really all we can do.

It’s not the most revolutionary idea, and maybe it’s not all that well thought out, but it’s simple and I think we don’t do it enough.