We watched – again – nauseated, stunned, horrified – hearing the grief-stricken wail of dying innocence — a six-year-old, a husband, a mother gunned down — for what? Communities — again – face the loss of precious life randomly killed, en masse, so that one sick shooter could play out his deluded fantasy and make it big — a final violent hateful suicidal splash that he knew would flicker across the news like an impotent light before it was extinguished, bleeding into darkness.

We speak our outrage and despair: “DO SOMETHING!”

(I will not discuss our negligent, reprehensible senators blocking responsible gun legislation in this blog).

I have culled snippets from the NY Times and other sources on the days the mass killings took place, to focus attention on the profile of the shooters. You will see similarities amongst all of them. These individuals have serious mental health issues that do make them dangerous. To be clear, most individuals with “serious mental illness” are not dangerous; many are medicated appropriately and others are simply not inclined to violent acting out.