Those affected by one man’s evil deed are still reeling from the tragedy inflicted by Omar Thornton, a black driver who was recorded on video stealing beer from the company he was working for. On August 3, 2010, confronted with the evidence and given the choice to quit or be fired, he pulled out a gun hidden in his lunchbox and blasted away at his superiors, who happen to be all white, and according to one victim who survived the carnage, as "cold as ice" fatally killed eight good people and injured two others before killing himself. The race card was immediately pulled out as a motive among the pundits trying to put a racial spin on the tragedy. The fact remains that one evil man wiped out the lives of eight good, productive people and forever marred the lives of those around him.

There’s a common thread — one man driven by rage, jealousy, paranoia, desperation, depression over economic pressures, family problems or just plain deranged, decided he can’t take it anymore and instead of committing suicide, decide to inflict murder and mayhem killing several others, either his own family members or total strangers. In 2009, there were more than 7 mass murders committed by ordinary people, with a total casualty count, including the murderers themselves, of more than 60 people before the first 100 days of the year were over. Is this a social trend? Pundits and talking heads predict that as the percentage of the unemployed continues to rise as the recession becomes more firmly entrenched, we can expect more of this type of horror. God forbid.