A New Columbine... A New National Freakout?

So, it's happened again, this time on what's described as a remote Indian reservation -- a discontented student, described as a goth, killed his grand parents, took his guns to his high school and, in a unique solution to the problem of metal detectors, rammed his pick-up truck into the entrance, shot a security guard, a teacher, five students and himself.

I'm skipping the necessary mourning period and gruesome details to cut right to the chase. Here's the telling quote in the "color" piece that I linked to: "Another school worker described Wiese as "a mixed-up kid who seemed lost in life. He wasn't into normal things that kids should be. But I work with a lot of mixed-up kids who don't shoot people."

A very smart school worker, really. I'm amazed that he or she had the presence of mind to point out that a lot of mixed up people don't do things like this.

But, as I remember the aftermath of Columbine, I remember a sense of persecution against abnormal kids -- seemed like every weird one was potentially dangerous, all of the sudden. And, they're not.

I mean, who reading this was really, "into normal things that kids should be."

Honestly, ten people are dead. It will have to be dealt with. But let's keep perspective going forward.