We had a day of guns and people acting crazy here.

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For the record, I live in a fairly quiet bedroom community, not far from the main city. Like most such smaller cities and towns, ours has the good areas, and a few not so good areas. It's been fairly quiet for some time now, until today. I was watching mainstream news about the school shooting in Wisconsin, before I was supposed to leave home for an appointment. I shut off the TV, and got myself ready to go, got in the car and went 2 blocks. Big road block with several squad cars blocking the road, they directed everyone coming from my little subdivision to do a U-turn and go back. I hadn't heard any sirens close by, but then again, I wasn't listening, I had been watching TV. Our main high school is about 5-6 blocks away, depending on your path. Someone outside the high school had shot a lot of rounds, not hit anyone or anything except some empty cars. They streaked away, and left a lot of shells and also live ammo...so far, they have not been caught. So the high school, and all of our other local schools, were put on lockdown, as well as some nearby businesses. I went home and then there were a bunch of sirens, etc. so I went inside and stayed there, and cancelled my appointment. The Dairy Queen, which is part of the strip mall area about 4 blocks away, had been shot at, no one hit, but that was way too close to home. So, for calming entertainment (bad joke here) I stayed home and watched the information on the school shooting. I did a lot of thinking today about guns...about shootings, and about our world in general. And I don't like our world like this. Is this even fixable? How many more innocent children are going to die? How did a 15 year old girl get a gun today, to shoot with and then commit suicide? This is not what I ever imagined would be the world we had to live in, and our children and grandchildren had to live in. Sure, there has always been some violence, but never to this constant level. Way too many, way too close, and way, way too deadly. Be safe, friends.