I cringe when I hear tragedies like this..so many why’s & trying to make sense out of things that don’t make sense. I cringe because I believe one day it will be my brother on the news..I know I’ve talked about it a few times here before but all of my family (except for my enabling parents) know my brother is a ticking time bomb but nobody wants to hurt my parents feelings so we all just play nice, trying not to rock the boat. It’s a very sad, frustrating & dangerous situation. I pray for not only the families of the victims and those children/families that witnessed this horror but also to the family of the obviously sick young man that committed these horrific crimes. I pray for his family because I understand what they might’ve been dealing with & now the unbelievable, inevitable has happened.
Yeah, I do too. Like I said in 1203, this young woman I know is a ticking time bomb as well. When I heard of the Clackamas Town Center shooting, my first thought was, “Oh, no....” I honestly thought she’d done it.
Her parents try to ignore it, and the only person aside from myself who’s recommended to her that she needs some help was an ex-boyfriend of hers who’d finally had enough of her and kicked her out. Yeah, that episode made me nervous, not the least of which was the fact that I let her crash for a few days at my place while she found a new place to live. I couldn’t just leave her in the street, for heaven’s sake.
I always live with the dread that one of these days I’m going to be surfing the net and her name will pop up, in connection with a headline like “Mass Shooting in Portland, Oregon: at least 10 dead, many injured”.
When she was at my place for a few days, I DID NOT let her know that I had guns. In a strange way, thankfully I was between jobs at the time, and I was able to keep a vigilant eye on her.