Here I sit at the end of my day, ready to read for an hour before I go to bed. I can’t come to grips with the school shooting that happened today in Minnesota. I just don’t understand it. I don’t understand how things get that bad, and hopeless, and just utterly messed up to the point where something like this happens. I think about the fear in those kids and how horrible something like that must be to go through. Something I can never, and don’t want to ever understand. I wish there was something I could say or do, but what really can be said? It’s a tragendy and a sad day, and I can’t believe things like this aren’t preventable or able to be stopped. How can a kid plan something like this, get access to the weapons??? So many questions….At that age, there is so much promise, so much future, so much of just toughing out the bullshit for a little while. It’s not easy being a kid, as most of us can recently remember, but as bad as it ever was I can’t recall a single fleeting instant where anything like this ever entered my mind. My heart aches for the poor people of this community, especially the students, faculty, and families of the victims.