Stunned

I don't know why mass shootings, in the U.S. or elsewhere, surprise me anyway.  But a premeditated attack on a U.S. Congresswoman at a constituent event, resulting in her being gravely wounded and many others (including a Federal judge) being killed or wounded, is just beyond imagination.

Gabrielle Giffords, by coincidence, happens to be my mother's representative in Congress.  I am saying a prayer for her recovery and another for those killed or injured in this tragic event.