In Cold Blood

It's hard to comprehend how so much hate could build up in a 21 year old mind that he would shoot and kill nine people at a church Bible Study. I look at his picture and see a slight, sandy haired boy staring into the camera lens or in some of the pictures showing his tongue between his teeth. And I'm sad. Every time there is a racial incident, I am sad because all the hard work to end racial tension has gone to waste and relationships have been set back 100 years. What happened here? This young man was off the grid, under the radar. No one could have foreseen that he would take the gun purchased in April, join the Bible study for an hour, and then begin shooting the participants. With a mind so far gone, this kid would have found other ways to kill black people had a gun not been available. I reiterate...I don't understand. This kid was completely off balance and there was no way to assess the gravity of his hatred, and now it is way too late.