Sometimes I really hate being stuck in my cubicle...

[elanurel]

...because, like an idiot, I'm posting dorky stuff when there's something a lot bigger going on than my tirade about mastadons...

My heart goes out to everyone hurt by this.

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[refined_mirages]

I use to live 3 blocks from VT. My ex supposedly still goes there. My mom called and told me about it. Her first thought, "I wonder if the shooter is my daughter's ex."

[headdesk]

I think it's horrible nonetheless. It's pathetic that someone feels that mass murdering people is the way to find some peace/sanity/revenge/etc.

[elanurel]

It's pathetic that someone feels that mass murdering people is the way to find some peace/sanity/revenge/etc.

It is... I just can't fathom why anyone would do something like that, or why they think that's the only course of action to take.

And, it occurred to me, that it's pretty close to the anniversary of the Columbine shootings. Part of me wonders if that's a deliberate connection we were supposed to make.

[refined_mirages]

Can't fathom it either.

Perhaps. Hard to say at this point.

I think that VT handled it badly too. I think a lot less people would've been killed/hurt if better action had been taken.

[elanurel]

The date connection is probably nothing, and I only remembered it because I got that same sick feeling in my stomach as I did with Columbine while I kept reading the news. So I checked the dates and, yep, it's four days off of the eighth-year anniversary.

From what I can gather, it does seem to have been handled poorly. I hope that doesn't prove to be true as more of the story is uncovered...

[refined_mirages]

Indeed