I was studying yesterday when my wife called me from the other room saying that a Congresswoman had been shot. I looked at DailyKos (and MSNBC) and found out the horror of yesterday's events.
I was afraid this might happen. For the last year-and-a-half, I've been concerned that some right-wing lunatic would go and shoot a Democratic member of Congress. On a phone call a while back, my mom told me her concern that someone's going to shoot President Obama. Most older African-Americans worry about the President, especially given the sordid history of assassinations in the 1960s. My response to her that night was that President Obama would be fine, but I was worried that someone might try to assassinate a member of Congress.