01-25-2009, 05:41 PM
I generally think of Portland as being a safe place. They have lots of homeless people and a substantial drug culture, but generally they are peaceful. My wife and I come to Portland 1 weekend every few months to shop and experience some high-society culture. This seems to be a completely random shooting, which makes it even more difficult to process. Our brains want to find/create order out of chaos, but there is no order here. It just happened because it happened. The manager of Kell's was one of the victims. He/she took a bullet to the gut just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.