Maybe it's just another public coincidence since the Newtown massacre, or maybe shootings in safe places occur so frequently these days that it's impossible to hold a public meeting with the NRA without a bunch of people getting shot at the same time.
Cinemark, the company that owns the movie theater in Colorado where James Holmes went on a shooting rampage last July, apparently thought it was a good idea. The families, in a lengthy response, clearly did not.
There are many details that came out overnight about the mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, but the one that may be the most upsetting is the report of the Sikh temple leader who died while trying to defend his congregation.
Wade Michael Page. Expect that name to be burned into our brains and ingrained on the bottom third of our television sets now that authorities have named the 40-year-old as the suspect in the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting that left six people dead and four wounded over the weekend.
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