1. A young man with a short fuse who carried a gun (legally) in his car.
2. He is angry at his supervisor not for being treated cruelly, but because the supervisor was trying to enforce safety standards for this young man's own protection (to wear goggles, and to not use his cell phone on the assembly line). You care about your employee's safety and you get killed. This is a "no good deed goes unpunished" attitude that I have been on the receiving end of and I know quite well.
3. He slays men and women, no difference, no caring.
4. According to news reports he's been busted for drinking and pot use. You think?
5. Four of the dead are Catholics in the same parish. But they are Latino so the conservative commentators won't care about them because after all, Catholics just want "the Mexicans here to fill our empty church pews."
6. He tells his girlfriend he is going to kill his supervisor and she doesn't tell anyone and lets it happen. (I'm sure the women's libbies will jump to her defense making up battered woman syndrome or something, without her even being identified in the press or any details provided). So another woman is enabling a boyfriend's violence.
7. Conservative talk show hosts spewed the most vile venom all day today about the Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to give the death penalty to a child rapist who has not committed murder. Hour after hour of the most vile imagery to "illustrate" their "indignation" that the Justices "don't think infant raping is a crime," yet no ranting or raving about our increasingly insane society where a hot head pot head kills five people at work over SAFETY issues, and himself, and how about what THAT means for society. Not even a pause in the degrading attacks on the Supreme Court justices to talk about real degradation of rage filled maniacs who kill for no reason at all. Just another day in paradise, I guess, to these conservative morally high minded talk show hosts.
8. By the way, conservative talk show hosts. I have a challenge for you. Since you are all so high and mighty and moral, I look forward to you leading the charge to have every state pass a law that a child rapist receives life in prison with no chance of parole for the first offense. You want the death penalty, you say, yet there is no state that has automatic life for child rape with no chance of parole for the first offense. I look forward to seeing your citizen involvement and loud mouthed moral indignation state by state on this issue.
9. One slain victim is named Israel, just a sad side note.
Prayers for all the families who lost loved ones in "today's massacre," and for the colleagues who have now suffered through their personal "911." I know the feeling and I hope that you turn to God for condolence and comfort.
