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I'm trying to reconcile this with the outrage I've seen from other people--specifically that Cho was able to buy a gun despite have a history of poor mental health.

Assuming that weapon sales remain legal in Virginia (*sigh*) having a way to check someone's mental health state seems logical, and a perscription drug look-up would provide one way to do that.

However, the very existence of such a list seems to create opportunities for things like this post talks about.

I'm trying to figure out how to balance these concerns, but I don't think I'm doing a very good job of it.

How do you embrace a whole campus?

Exactly like this. By writing, thinking, praying, sending good thoughts. By remembering, and encouraging others to remember. By driving the bad, arrogant, and heartless people away while we mourn.

By reminding us that we're not going to be left alone in our grief. Our arch-rivals - University of Virgina - declared it Hokie day and most of the campus wore /our/ colors of marroon and orange.

Suzanne - alumni

H.D. left her girlfriend and child safe in Egypt and went back to London as the bombs fell during WWII. After each attack she would walk the streets that were hit and talk to people. She wrote a beautiful poem trilogy called "The Walls do Not Fall" about it--partly comparing the bombings to the opening of the Egyptian pyramids. She saw both as tragedies that revealed hidden treasure-- one in gold and knowledge and the other in strength and solidarity. (as I remember it, I should go back and re-read.)

I'd like to think that is part of the reason people watch disasters. All of us are instinctually drawn to those moments of breaking and re-forging-- and we desperately need to see what comes out of the pyramids.

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