The demeanor and faith of the victims close friends
 

is a tribute to them and a solace to so many of us saddened by these horrible acts

It is to awful to think that these good people were not safe in their church.

How could this young man, looking so innocent harbor such hatred?

Why did his father gift him with a revolver? Didn't someone in his family know him well enough to be wondering what was brewing?

So many questions, The overwhelming feeling of wondering what is happening in this world?

It is indeed sad but looking around the world we are still much more civilized than most

Cést la vie

That will change as we become less homogeneous and more atheistic. This is the beginning of the end of the "great experiment". I'm sad to see it happening during my lifetime and frustrated to know I can't do anything about it.

What is sad is that Roof told friends he was going to do this and they did nothing to stop him.
I get a sense that here in America we are returning to a time of great anger and less compassion. Thank's to modern mass communication one act of violence can create paranoia on a national scale. In the past 60 years many horrible inhuman acts have occurred. What is odd is that many people see the victims as the enemy. Looking at shootings over the past few years that have made headlines the victim is frequently viewed as worthy of his fate.
Quote. "What is hateful to you, do not do to others, that is the whole law, the rest is commentary." Rabbi Hillel

Smart, smart Rabbi.

If you can't be safe in your church------God help us!

Obviously "Church" means nothing to this boy (and many others), so not being safe in Church should not be surprise. To many, Church is God's House. To this boy it was an opportunity.

What is far sadder is that the courts had every indication he was going to do something like this, and they let him go around laughing at them some more.

They pampered him, and got what they ordered, sadly for the community that hires and pays these damn fools. It's the same background story as the Tuscon and Colorado theater, and the Newtown school massacre killers, but fools do not learn.

Since January, Roof has been arrested twice, both at the Columbiana Mall in Columbia, S.C. According to arrest records obtained CBS News investigative producer Laura Strickler, on February 28, Roof went into a Bath and Body Works store wearing all black and asked "out of the ordinary questions," including how many associates were working, when they closed and what time they leave. Mall employees complained and when an officer approached him Roof said "his parents were pressuring him to get a job."

The officer noted that Roof was becoming increasingly nervous. He searched Roof and found "orange strips" that Roof said were "suboxone," a Schedule 3 narcotic. Roof was arrested and his 2000 Hyundai Elantra was towed.

He was banned from the mall for one year. But on April 26, he returned and was arrested for trespassing and banned from the mall for three years. His car was turned over to his mother.

In a photograph posted to Roof's Facebook page, he is wearing a jacket with two patches on it. One is the apartheid-era South Africa flag, the other is the flag of Rhodesia, the African nation that was renamed Zimbabwe after white rule was ended.

Another photograph posted by one of Roof's Facebook friends depicts the suspect posing in front of a car with front license plate reading "Confederate States of America."

South Carolina shooting: What we know about suspect Dylann Storm Roof, 21 - CBS News

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