A sad day

I was sitting down having lunch about a mile from the Edmond post office today when the news of the massacre at Virginia Tech's campus flashed on the restaurant television screens.

I don't need to tell anyone here in central Oklahoma of the significance of Edmond to killing sprees.

I had all sorts of opinions about guns in our society rushing around in my head that morning in 1986 when 14 people, including a friend, were murdered at the post office. Those ideas all came back today at lunch while watching the TV news a little ways south on Broadway Avenue.

I will wait for some more appropriate time to say anything more about those ideas. In the meantime it is enough to feel horrible that more innocent people died today and to remember those most affected by this and past tragedies.