I have been through more shooting than you can imagine or care to guess. I took my children to the memorial for the Chuck E Cheese Shooting in Aurora CO in 1992, when my seventeen year old soccer player was killed by a disgruntled former employee. I had coached him for six years.

I took my school age children to the candle light vigil for Columbine High School because we lived fifteen miles from the school. Oh by the way, The Colorado Avalanche were in the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Los Angeles Kings when this happened. They asked that the first two games that was supposed to be in CO be delayed and start the series in Los Angeles. The NHL Agreed and so di the Kings. Matter of fact because most of the players on the Avalanche used kids from Columbine to babysit and they were at the vigil also.

I attended the memorial for Virginia Tech because I lived in Roanoke, VA at the time. I grew up there and Virginia Tech is my favorite college.

I attended the memorial for the Aurora Theater shooting victims and held some of the kids close because most of them went to school with my children.

I live over 1,000 miles from the shooting site, so all I can offer is "thoughts and prayers."

One thing that you might want to research, the guns used weren't " assault rifles" There is no such thing, the AR-15 is nothing more than a 22 rifle. The AR stands for Armolite Rifle, the name of the company that originially made the AR-15. So, I have dealt with more grief than most people know when it comes to mass shootings.