Got to disagree with you here not only did the family lose a son, which is hard even when it's expected, but to have to endure the shame and guilt of the circumstances. They have to be thinking a million "what ifs", what if I'd sold the gun, what if I'd had one more talk with him...All that being said, it's not a zero sum game, the compassion I feel for his family in no way diminishes the compassion I feel for her family.
I guess we disagree. It IS tragic not because of the perpetrator, but because of what his family will endure for the rest of their lives. I have close friends who live a few doors away from his house - with the media parked on their front lawn hoping for a glimpse by the cameras of these evil people who raised such a beast of a child and gave him access to a horrid weapon... their lives are effectively ruined by what he did. I doubt he was thinking in those terms when he walked out of the door that morning, but WE can think about it and feel compassion for THEM at least.
Yep..burned it down too.Say " hi" to stumpy for me.
