Shooting

 Right in Bend!!! 7p Sunday evening.. Three people dead including the shooter taking his own life. One elderly man 84 at the entrance and a heroic produce worker (66) who made an attempt to stop him.  Which almost certainly slowed him down, the police were there within 4 min of the 1st 911 call and entered the building for..  there were two more injured i believe, but have not heard about them yet. Apparently his plan was for the 1st day of school at Mtn View H.S. which does not start until AFTER Labor Day and he could no longer wait (according to a blog he was writing).  At 7p there is not a bustle of people in the store.. but still plenty. He had an AK47 and a shotgun... he was 20.. what can be so horrid at 20 yrs old?  you haven't even had any time to figure out anything, really.. I am sure more will come out.. this is what we know now.. and surely it is not enough to be any type of reasoning. but there is no reasoning to make any of this ok.  and we think this can never happen in our community/neighborhood. Bend is only 16 miles from Redmond, where i live. there are almost 200,000 living in Deschutes Co.  is that a large population to foment this type of response to a feeling of, of what? i don't know what causes this response in young men. a lack of education, training, home life? where do we start? i think a ban on assault rifles is a start, what is the need for them in society. as a tool of war certainly, but at home? for young men, disassociated with reality, home life, reason. There had been a ban on assault weapons  that expired in 2004,  incidents have gone up since and have been exponentially more violent. Is this truly what we want? and become so inured that it is accepted as the norm?

I worry about it. I wonder about it. what can we do? i ache for the people involved and pray for them in this violent upheaval of their lives and our forgiveness for letting it continue

Take Care and God Bless