It is a terrible tragedy and I am sure we will be hearing about it for some time. This is the sort of thing the news media will grab on to and use as a means to demand changes. What changes, I am not yet sure.

We now know a Federal Judge was murdered and a 9 year old child, and that the shooter was a veteran. Some reports say they had met before in 2007.

I have been checking in with the Washington Post periodically. They seem to have more news than the Tucson newspaper website. Washington Post update on Shooting in Tucson

My mother and step-father live in Pima County, and ironically this morning Steve and I had been discussing - in theory - what it would be like to move there. (Hey, it's really cold in Northern Illinois in January and the snowbird concept seems to creep into our minds every winter.)