[fabsroman]

Preventing mass violence by a lunatic is tough. If not with a gun, why not a bomb, why not a car, why not an ax, why not a knife, why not a chainsaw. If the guy chained in his victims, how would we have prevented any of this?

The simple answer would have been if everybody in that class room had been carrying a gun. However, would it lead to more violence if everybody had a gun on them? Would people be more likely to shoot somebody in a moment of rage.

Last week, we had a road rage incident right by me. A guy in a pickup and two ladies in a civic got into it on I-270. They were weaving in and out of traffic and giving one another rude gestures. The guy in the pickup finally got in front of the civic, slammed on the brakes, and the civic veered to miss the pickup. The civic went off the road and both women were killed. I believe they were young too. So, how do we stop this?

About a month ago, I was out riding my bike in the area, about 15 miles from home and there were ambulances and fire trucks everywhere. Got home to listen to the news and found out that a man hanged his three kids and himself from a tree because his wife wanted to leave him. How is that any different than this moron at VT? The only difference is that the guy at VT killed more people and used a gun instead of a rope.

As long as we have crazy people that do not value life, we will have things like this happen. Stopping something like this from ever happening again would require a crystal ball.

I am in a great mood today because my baby daughter was born and both she and my wife are doing great. I am pissed off because I was forced to leave the hospital when I would have preferred to spend the night there with both of them. I am even more pissed off at my wife's roommate who gave birth to a baby boy the night before. She is 16. Her parents were there and she was asking them how much a house costs in this area (her parents' response $600,000), how much a car costs (her parents' response $20,000), and how much a cell phone costs (her parents' response $100). Found out that this girl doesn't even have her driver's license. Now, while her parents were there, they mentioned that they will have to stop cussing around the baby so that he will grow up right. This girl blamed her friends for all the cussing. The minute her parents left, this girl was cussing like a sailor and my wife, my daughter, my in-laws, and I were in the room subjected to it. If she wasn't leaving first thing in the morning, I would have been very tempted to ask for a private room and pay the difference myself. Now, what is wrong with this picture. I can go on all night about this girl, but I want to post something about my daughter's birth before I have to get to sleep so that I can get back to the hospital when visiting hours start at 8:00 am.