Virginia Tech

The thing that bothers me the post about the incident at Virginia Tech earlier in the week are the headlines in the newspapers: Madman, Face of Evil, Psycho Killer and the like. My initial thought on seeing this student's picture in the newspaper was What must have happened to him? What did he suffer through? Was it mental illness untreated? What was his life like that got him to the point of murder?

I'm not of the mind that anyone is evil. We are all children of God, and any one of us is capable of despicable action. While I'm floored by what happened and grieve with the victims' families, I also grieve at the loss of the shooter's life and wonder what, if anything, could have been said to him or demonstrated to him that would have kept him from resorting to such outrageous action.