Santa Clarita is supposed to be "safe". I grew up there until my parents moved us up to the Antelope Valley (they couldn't afford a house in Santa Clarita but they could in Palmdale). My sister moved back down there to raise her family. I'm heart broken that my niece (7) and nephew (5) have to learn about and deal with this so young. I know it can happen anywhere but still...
I agree.
I have thought a lot lately about how the countless good citizens of Mexico, including very young, children, teens. and all ages beyond must feel while having to live in a constant state of fear every single day. Even in states there which were once seen as safe.
While horrific mass shooting like this one, and others in the US, most homicides, and attempted homicides continue to be committed by gang violence in alarming numbers or individual, one on one homicides.
However one mass shooting is too many.
I believe this horrid individual may have been contemplating his own suicide prior to carrying it out. So instead of doing it hurting no one else, but those who loved him, he decided to seek notoriety instead by doing the shootings against innocent others as well.
Usually these kind of mass shootings do not happen in a vacuum known only to the mass murderer alone.
They often express their thoughts, and rage on a social media site or express them to close peer friends or even family members. Sadly it's ignored way too often by those who knows them.
Its after the damage has been done is when we often learn people close to the offenders did know vital information, but said absolutely nothing.
Imo, those knowing cant be the ones who are deciding on their own what they heard or saw meant nothing.
Imo, they have a moral obligation to let someone with authority, and knowledge know immediately instead just assuming it meant nothing.
Jmho
