I live in Austin, Texas.

Today, someone flew a small plane into a building on the north side of town.

Details are still coming together. But at this point it seems that a man was greatly troubled, many problems with the IRS (amongst other things). He burned down his own house (apparently while wife and daughter were still inside). Then flew a single engine plane into a building that held IRS offices. All in all, a very sad situation in every way for everyone involved.

I do hope everything gets sorted out and things resolved as best they can at this point.

I also hope that knee-jerk reactions don’t happen as result of this. This was a lone incident of “crazy” and folks, you can’t stop crazy. Actually I’d say this is more “sad”, but the point remains that this was an isolated incident. I don’t want to see my city get all tied up in this, calling for increased security measures, or changing FAA rules, or whatever. That’s not going to stop anything and will only serve to further degrade the lives of the citizenry… which in a way, is what this guy was rallying against. You’d only be feeding the beast by doing such things.

I hope cool heads prevail.