This AP story really hit me hard. Note the last sentence indicating that the shooter had a valid gun license. When is this country going to come out of the fog and realize that there are too many guns in this country.
When I stop to think of the various initiatives out there allowing concealed weapons, I have to cringe. You never know who you will run into in this world or what it would take to piss them off. All I know is that the 27-year old father holding his 10-month old baby would have had a better chance of survival had the shooter been unarmed.
Now all we have is a 60-year old man going to jail, a wife whose husband will probably die in jail, a widow left to care for her baby alone and an orphan - all because the man had a gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Dads-Slaying.html
editorial note - I realize that the child is not an orphan in the complete sense of the word, but the baby has no father now.