I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m on overload still with all the news from the VA Tech killings (thanks to the thoughtless execs at NBC) and now there’s been another shooting incident at the Johnson Space Center in Texas.

Krazypuppy at Texas Kaos sums it up:

God.

NASA security personnel as well as Houston police responded to “a report about a person with a weapon” at Building 44 on the space center’s campus, agency spokeswoman Lynette Madison told MSNBC.com. Other sources with the police department told NBC News that the person was said to be carrying a gun.
She said that personnel were evacuated from the building, and that the situation was “ongoing.” Police told NBC that the building was being searched, but that they had not yet found any sign of a gunman.

Building 44 is a research and engineering building on a remote part of Johnson Space Center’s sprawling campus, far from the Mission Control buildings.

KHOU and AP report, “JSC gunman was NASA engineer.”

A gunman who took two hostages inside building 44 at JSC killed one of them, then took his own life Friday afternoon.

A second hostage, a woman, was bound to a chair with duct tape, but was unharmed. The gunman was identified as Bill Phillips who was a contract engineer with Jacobs engineering said Johnson Space Center Director Michael L. Coats.

“God” is right. Stop the madness. Guns kill people. We need to make it harder for people to get guns.

Re: VA Tech… Stuart O’Neill has the statement up from Cho’s family here.

Political actions and considerations can wait for another time. First, we heal ourselves.

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