I've been watching updates on this story all day here at work via CNN on the internet - tragic is not a strong enough word to describe the incident that unfolded today
As you all have said, why take these innocent children with him? If it's a 20 year old grudge, these girls were not even alive at that time cause as I understand it, all the victims are between 6 and 16 years of age. It's a sad, sad day when we send our kids off to school, a place that's supposed to be safe, and in this day, we can't be for certain we'll see them at the end of the day! Although we have on-duty police officers at our schools here in town at the school from 7:00 in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon, they can't be all over the campus at one time! My son and I were just talking about the recent school shootings and I told him not to ever say it couldn't happen here - because it could. The Pearl school shooting where Luke Woodham was the shooter is not quite an hour to the east of where I live - THAT one was a little too close to home!
Sending many prayers to the families affected by today's tragedy (and those from last week!).