Saturday, a beautiful, sunny day in Tucson, turned  murky and dark with the events on the southeast corner of Ina and Oracle.  The shooting of the 19 people at the Safeway Shopping Center casts a pall over Tucson.

Residents, this Monday morning, continue to look at each other and  murmur about the irrationality of one man’s act which  claimed six lives and put others in jeopardy, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Each life, precious in it’s own right, but the death of the nine year old girl who has not even experienced “life”, is unfathomable.  And Gabe Zimmerman, always professional and polite when I’ve spoken to him,  half the age of some of the victims, about to begin life in a new chapter as a married man, leaves huge voids in the lives of those who love him.  Those victims in their 60’s, grandparents and parents, mindlessly cut down by “an unstable” person, leave a vacuum in the lives of their family and friends.

We begin our week going back to our jobs, our routines, but we will not forget the events of Saturday.  We keep the victims in our thoughts and prayers, and  appeal to the powers that be for a full recovery for those victims who survived this horrific day.

Tags: My Point of View

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