Why?

 "This is a very small community, and this type of incident — and it obviously has rocked and crushed that community at this point. They're looking for answers, and they want to know why."

Why would someone roar through a sleepy little community in northern Michigan, killing teenagers and adults before turning the gun on himself? This was the questions local officials were asking.

"This type of incident" is called a mass shooting. According to the government, our government, this is the definition that kicks in once the body count reaches three or more. Our Federal Bureau of Investigation refers to an incident that clocks in at four or more fatalities as a "mass murder." 

The killings in the Missaukee County community of Lake Township ticked both those boxes. 

The question remains.

Why? 

Preliminary reports suggest that the murderer had a "troubled past" and had been involved in a "contentious divorce." 

Oh, and this just in: He had access to guns and ammunition. One of his intended victims, a thirteen year old girl, was shot four times but managed to call 911 and identify the gunman. Authorities were able to track him down, but not before he took his own life. 

"How could this happen here?" Contentious divorces and individuals with troubled pasts can be found in just about every city, county, and town across this great land of ours. Land of the free, home of the brave and home to the glorious Second Amendment. 

In just about every city, county and town in this great land of ours there are goons with and without masks, some of them trained, some of them not, to kill. This is how we remind our citizens "thou shalt not kill." At the end of last month, the state of Florida executed two murderers on the same day. For some, this was a moment worth celebrating. One of them was eighty years old, the oldest inmate ever executed in the Sunshine State. The other one was a former police officer. 

Why?

I want to know too.