Y'know, people suck sometimes. And sometimes they're just stupid.

Six dead in Mississippi shooting. The gunman killed five people, injured nine (one critically) and then killed himself.

You know, these tragedies are always awful. Loss of life in such a fashion is in some ways harder to take than the careless hand of fate, like storms. But.... Just some outtakes from the article:

( Sparing those who don't want to see it. Upshot: shoulda seen this coming. Why did no one act? )

At least no one quoted in the article said that this couldn't be predicted. People often say that, but then if you listen to what else it said, what they really mean is no one wanted to look at it, so it wasn't predicted, even though the signs were there.

In this case, the signs were there but at least they're not pretending they weren't. How much longer do we have to go before we develop better ways of dealing with these things? Are there better ways? Or are we just stuck with letting these people go off....

Don't mind me, just a bit of pessimism spawned from a nasty situation.