I checked in with my friends there. They are all OK, but one reported his wife had driven past the Santa Monica College campus shortly before the shootings. Another friend's married son lives with his wife and two young kids just two blocks from the first crime scene where two died and a house was torched.
America held hostage by ubiquitous weaponry designed for the battlefield, yet in the hands of politically-enabled maniacs targeting innocents on our streets and in classrooms.
