Action and Reaction

I'm not really going to say much about this week's tragedy at VA Tech, except to post an article that seems to put it into perspective. It's not about pointing the finger at the guns or the video games, as I'm sure will happen soon:

This week a horrible person with horrible intentions did something unconscionable and unredeemable. He strapped on a bullet-proof vest, loaded-up with ammunition enough to wage a private war and slaughtered students at Virginia Tech. And, now there will be tears and rage, confusion and blame.

In the aftermath, as people search hopelessly for answers enough to square the tragedy away conveniently into an understandable box, easy and convenient culprits will be dragged into the national spotlight and lambasted with great and furious hyperbole by people with an agenda. You will hear the usual suspects mentioned sometimes with explicit accusations of causality and sometimes just with a sense of guilt by association, and politicians already in the fresh throes of a coming campaign will trot out platitudes and rhetoric.

My heart certainly goes out to those affected, and I'm wearing a orange and crimson ribbon today in remembrance. Yet I do inwardly cringe at the condemnations that will most assuredly follow...