Everyone has their opinions, their thing to say, their condolence to offer. I’m adding my voice to the fray not because you need to read it, but because it’s something I need to write.

There is evil in the world. That’s clear enough. There’s something wrong with what happed at VT, no matter what philosophy you hold. You can feel it. The good news in all this is that’s not the end of the story: there is good, too, and the good is stronger.

Quite a few people, specifically in Virginia these days, need our prayer.

In the frantic search for a villain, for someone to blame, I’ve felt a bad taste growing in my mouth. The media, in their often tasteless and always sensational way, are by far the greatest villains in the aftermath. This isn’t a time to do something in Virginia, unless that something is a moment of silence and reflection. It’s a time for mourning, not a time for action; it’s a time for laying those who died to rest, not a time to take the president of VT behind the barn. There are enough casualties of this tragedy already.

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