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...that *this* is the incident that will tip the balance?

I didn't say that, nor was it implicit in my post. This is just one more in the ever-lengthening list of tragic human events that result from man's flirtations with evil; whether directly or indirectly. Also, your implication that there is some kind of balance, here, is inappropriate to the subject. There is not a balance between good and evil; there is a timeframe, in which evil agencies are allowed to operate, that has a predetermined end -- an expiration date, if you will -- after which they and their acts will be arrested, judged, condemned and punished. That isn't balance, that is simply allowing both good and evil to be manifest in a temporal context that provides mankind with the information required to decide for himself which is worthy of his patronage.

I, for one, have seen -- no -- have experienced enough. While I offer my condolences and pray comfort to the afflicted, my greater energy is to grasp the bars of Heaven's gates, shake them until the hinges rattle and shout, "Are You ready, yet? Are we done? How much longer?" an activity which I know to be entirely within bounds because He's more sick of it all than even I am. As badly as I'd like to see this all get wrapped up and dealt with, He wants it even more badly than I. And I understand that my voice shouting at the gates is simply an expression of His own righteous indignation with evil being echoed back to Him through me; it's a closed circle, and a part of the undrecurrent of all creation groaning under the weight of sin. I guess sometimes that groaning finds a voice, and I'm okay with being "it" once in awhile.