Senseless Violence

The events that have happened today with the shooting of our Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords  here in Tucson shakes me to my core.  So many questions come to mind, but namely why?  Why would anyone resort to such a cowardice way of handling things by shooting 19 innocent people; 6 died, the rest are fighting for their lives.  WHY?  What purpose did this serve?  What has our country came to?  Outlawing guns isn't the answer.  Outlawing people's demented minds perhaps?  I wasn't a true supporter of Giffords, however, I wasn't against her either. She has her good and bad points as all politicians do.  But to shoot her?  I go back to WHY?  This type of random violence makes absolutely no sense to me.  I can't seem to wrap my mind around this.  And you never expect it to happen here...where you live.  A larger city, perhaps, but Tucson???  Still has me reeling.

Yes, I know this shopping center well.  Matter-of-fact, I frequent the Safeway Store where it happened.  I go to the other stores in the shopping center as well.  One of my favorite places to eat is in this shopping center.  I could have been there this morning...I had planned on going to get my favorite bread at Beyond Bread, but decided I didn't feel like driving this morning...it's about a 15 minute drive from our house.  Holly was heading there as well....she had called Beyond Bread to give them a "go" order, only to find out they were closed, she asked why and was told there had been a shooting at the Safeway.  She knows me so well that she called me to make sure I was okay and NOT at the Safeway.  It is one of my regular haunts.  Scary to think about what could have been.   Now I am not sure I want to leave my house anytime soon.  I could get real paranoid over this.  I need some milk, will someone go to the store for me?

Back to my original question...WHY?  I just don't understand what motivates a person do such a horrendous act of violence.  What are they thinking?  Is this what our country has come to?  Is this going to become the "norm" for us?  I certainly hope not.  We all know that violence is on the increase everywhere...but there again I have to ask WHY?  Have we, as adults, raised these individuals to become violent?  Is it because of all the violence on TV and the movies that has warped these minds into thinking this is the normal?  Are these types of people living in this type of make believe fog that makes it okay?  And most importantly, what can we do as citizens to stop it?  Why did an innocent 9 year old girl have to die?  What was the purpose of that?  Why did Judge Roll have to die?  Why did four others have to die and 13 others be fighting for their lives?  Just what purpose did this serve?  WHY???????