My colleague Bob Watson at Brainstorms reports that it’s not the worst school mass murder in U.S. History as has been claimed in the early news reports. But it’s so terrible that I can’t take it in. The Washinton Post reports 32 dead and more than two dozen injured. I pray for the dead and injured, and I pray for the community at Virginia Tech, those who have been terrorized and those who have had the task of dealing directly with the violence and for their families and friends. And I pray for the killer, whoever that was. Some are reporting that students have been critical of police for failing to stop the shootings sooner. There are stories of two separate shooting sprees, two hours apart.

I pray for all who have been directly involved in this terrible thing and for the rest of us as well.