Another Tragic School Shooting

Ten people were killed and more than a dozen were wounded yesterday by a gunman who opened fire at a high school and private home on an isolated Indian reservation in northern Minnesota, the FBI said.

The gunman, who was a student, killed his grandparents, local officials said. They said he then traveled to the high school in Red Lake, a town of a few thousand on the southern shore of an inland lake, where witnesses said he charged in to the school waving his gun and grinning as he shot down students, teachers and a school security guard. The shooter was found dead inside the school, authorities said.

We've been spared these tragic shootings of late, but just when we think things have calmed down, here we go again. I just don't understand what drives some kid to do stuff like this. I'm sure we'll hear all kinds of psychobabble in the coming weeks as they deconstruct this incident.

A few years ago one of my clients, a church is Santee, CA, was used by the Sheriff's office as a mobile command post following a deadly shooting at the high school across the street. I remember talking with the pastor about how the witnesses were brought to the church all day to be interviewed. Just a short time later there was another shooting a few miles away in El Cajon. Unfortunately, these things tend to give other disturbed people ideas and copycat crimes are always possible. Let's hope that's not the case this time.