Why?

I walked into the station Friday Morning July 20th and couldn't not believe what I was seeing. A live shot on TV from the town I grew up in, detailing the movie theatre shooting by alleged murder suspect James Holmes. My heart dropped into my stomach and I felt sick. As the details slowly came out throughout the day I just sat and stared at my computer. Why did this happen? What was the idiot thinking? I thought about the families, trying to learn if their loved ones were alive or dead. I thought about my days growing up, going to the nearby Aurora Mall. I thought about seeing a move two weeks ago and not worrying at all about someone walking in and opening fire. I thought about my youngest son who went to a midnight screening of "Batman The Dark Knight Rises" here in town. Memories of Columbine came back. No one can answer Why, because rational minds can't comprehend irrational minds, and there is something inherently irrational, or unbalanced, or crazy, or whatever the word is, about the mind of a mass murderer or any criminal for that matter. My mind screams in anger towards the man accused of killing 12 and wounding 58. My heart cries for the dead and the wounded. And what I'm left with, is Why?