Inspired by life's ebb and flow...

I have never felt so horribly depressed about an event so far away as yesterday's horrific massacre at Virginia Tech. My deepest sympathy and condolances go out to the familes and friends of the victims. For whatever reason, this hits harder and closer to home than daily reports of generic suicide car bombings from what seems like worlds away. The part that is most frustrating and what I cant seem to understand is how a person, and i mean any person, regardless of age or level of education, could have such little regard for human life to destroy it just because they have hit rock bottom and desire to self-destruct. From an historical standpoint murder-suicide is a realitvely new concept that makes me wonder what was so bad about the old way of kicking back with a bottle of your favorite pills and washing them down with enough whiskey to keep you from ever waking up again. In the end I suppose, at least according to Dante's Inferno, this is the reasoning behind the seven layers of Hell. All I know is when a group of innocent people who have in common the desire to better themselves through higher eduation are mowed down like targets on a firing range, our chances of progression of a species are lessened considerably.