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So here we are again, stunned by a tragedy.

We have been visited by this demon before our hearts go out to those that have been injured

or killed in their loved ones.

How do you make sense of these types of senseless situations is really the question that seems

to be on everybody's mind.

And I don't know that there is a way to make sense of this sort of thing.

As I watch the political, pundit world, many are reflecting and grieving and trying to figure

things out.

But it's definitely true that others are working feverishly to find the tidbit or two that

will exonerate their side from blame or implicate the other.

And watching that is as predictable, I think, as it is, dispiriting.

Did the toxic political environment cause this?

A graphic image here in ill-timed comment, violent rhetoric, those types of things?

I have no f***ing idea.

We live in a complex ecosystem of influences and motivations, and I wouldn't blame our

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