Aurora, CO
Like many others, I woke up this morning to the news of the spree shooting in Aurora, killing 12 and wounding 50. It was a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rising". It makes me angry when wolves prey on the innocent.
Michael Dorn has an excellent blog on the topic in which he gives his take on the shooting. My take is a bit different. Already on the the news, talking heads chatter on about things like gun control, psychology, seek to know why the gunman would do this horrible thing, and wonder what could have been done to prevent it.
The awful secret to school safety, as well as emergency management, is that it is impossible to stop bad things from happening. There are things that can be done to mitigate a disaster, and can help prevent an attack, but there is little that can be done from stopping a dedicated person from acting upon the evil in their hearts.
That doesn't mean we don't do everything we can to prevent an attack. It just means that we should do what we can to understand why an attack occurred, and improve the way we prepare. We should spend little time, if any, pounding our chests and crying, "Why?"
Sheepdogs adapt, change, and then overcome.
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