I don't really like what the shooter did, per se, but I do like the effect that it has had on people of jolting the sheeple out of their complacency and getting them aware that something is seriously wrong with our society. Opinions diverge on exactly what that is (such as whether there are too many guns or too few, whether we should blame the lack of career prospects for this generation's graduates, etc.), but at least people are aware that not all is hunky-dory in our society, and at least people are talking about it. For the same reason, part of me liked when 9/11 happened. It was an exciting, momentous, historical occasion that promised to make tomorrow different in some way or another. Sadly, that "different" turned out to be "worse" with Bush at the helm and the country taking a sudden neo-conservative direction, but I was optimistic at first.
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