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By Scott Harrup | March 14, 2008
Four people died in a McComb, Miss., bank shooting on Wednesday. The casualties were two bank employees, a customer and the gunman.
The gunman came into the bank shortly after 11 a.m. and opened fire, killing one employee and one customer. He then took the other employee, his ex-wife, and drove away in a truck. He apparently shot her before shooting himself.
Police believe the incident was a domestic situation rather than an attempted robbery. If they’re correct, the loss of life was a direct result of one man’s inability to accept the loss of his marriage.
Divorce is tragic in itself. But here’s another level of tragedy boiling out of the initial breakup.
I’m convinced it’s impossible to calculate the full effects whenever we pursue a line of action in opposition to God’s laws. There’s a domino effect, an ever-growing series of ripples…pick your analogy.
Four people went to a bank Wednesday morning. Three of them probably thought the day would be like any other. Perhaps even the gunman never planned to take things as far as they went. But something terrible was brewing from that earlier divorce, and people who probably had no connection with it ended up dying.
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