Why?

All I can think about is the tragedy that has taken place at Virginia Tech. I was talking with some of my friends and they are all saying "How can GOD let this happen?" Can we really answer this question? In the book "When Bad things Happen to Good People" the author Harold S. Kushner says:

God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal, living in a world of inflexible natural laws.

The painful things that happen to us are not punishments for our misbehavior, nor are they in any way part of some grand design on God's part. Because the tragedy is not God's will, we need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. We can turn to Him for help in overcoming it, precisely because we can tell ourselves that God is as outraged by it as we are.

I can only imagine how much God is hurting with the families of the VT victims now. Are we as Christ Followers showing the same love to them as He would?