Therapy?

Sometimes I wonder if God wished He had an ‘undo’ button when a horrible misdeed has just happened among His creations. Or better yet, to wipe the slate clean and dirt-free, a ‘reset‘ button. For what a screwed-up world we live in. We don’t even deserve a place on earth sometimes, let alone heaven.

"You don’t expect this to happen at your school. We’re just kids." said Brittany Jones.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - A Virginia Tech senior from South Korea was behind the massacre of at least 30 people locked inside a campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

The gunman appeared to have used chains to lock doors and prevent victims from escaping. Fifteen people were wounded, including those shot and students hurt jumping from windows in a desperate attempt to flee the gunfire.

Derek O’Dell, his arm in a cast after being shot, described a shooter who fired away in "eerily silence" with "no specific target - just taking out anybody he could."

After the gunman left the room, students could hear him shooting other people down the hall. O’Dell said he and other students barricaded the door so the shooter couldn’t get back in - though he later tried.

"He was just shooting to kill," Dr. Joseph Cacioppo, an emergency room physician who treated the wounded.

Remember the 5 stages of grief? Shock, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. One statement alone swings this whole surreal, already unbelievable incident from shock to full-blown anger.

Advocates of gun ownership rights saw Monday’s massacre as evidence of the need to relax gun laws, not tighten them.

"The latest school shooting at Virginia Tech demands an immediate end to the gun-free zone law," said Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.

So this genius advocates that violence justifies more violence. The great equaliser. The problem-solver. Pack everyone you know with a gun, for everyone is a potential victim. So in his sick mind, in an ideal world, his utopia, everybody has a gun. A bunch of 6-year-olds in a playground, and no bullying exists because as soon as one kid upsets the other he’d have a gun pointed at his face. PERFECT!!!

Spare a prayer, a thought for the victims of this dark, dark day, please. Them and their families. May God be with them. Take a deep breath in and out, and be thankful that we are now safely behind our desks going about our own business. Some of us might even be oblivious this has happened. Imagine you’re the emergency room doctor in Virginia, and minute by minute another victim gets wheeled in. You pounce to your duty like you only know how, and, overloaded with work that should have been totally preventable, you think "what is this world coming to?"

"It’s just, it’s going to be horrible, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better." Gregory Walton, friend of Ryan Clark, one of the deceased.

God be with them.