Well, it seems that my current home town has made international news this week. If you haven't happened to catch the story on CNN or any number of other news channels or shows in the past day, a disgruntled gunman in Orlando Florida was taken into police custody yesterday after shooting six people at his former place of employment in a downtown office tower. Police say that 40 year old Jason Rodriguez (so weird, I used to know a guy with that name) will be charged with first-degree murder and other crimes.
Personally, after reading and viewing different reported accounts of this story, I have to wonder what levels of pain and frustration brings someone to engage in such intense behavior. Part of me almost wants to feel bad for the guy. However, based on what I know of the story, none of Rodriguez's personal problems were life-or-death and it all just seems to boil down to an example of a sadly irresponsible person taking his own problems out on others at immense cost... and in a state with the death penalty... good job there.
Personally, after reading and viewing different reported accounts of this story, I have to wonder what levels of pain and frustration brings someone to engage in such intense behavior. Part of me almost wants to feel bad for the guy. However, based on what I know of the story, none of Rodriguez's personal problems were life-or-death and it all just seems to boil down to an example of a sadly irresponsible person taking his own problems out on others at immense cost... and in a state with the death penalty... good job there.
