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“The ‘Gaslamp Ghosts’ Are Us: How San Diego’s Latest Tragedy Is Forcing a Brutal Reckoning with Our Own Emotional Ammo”

By Dr. Lena Voss, Life Coach & Trauma Psychologist

San Diego, CA – As the smoke clears from the latest mass shooting in the Gaslamp Quarter, we are glued to the headlines asking “Who did this?” and “Why?” But as a life coach, I’m asking a different question: What are you shooting at yourself every day?

We call it a “senseless tragedy,” but there is a psychology to senselessness. The alleged shooter didn’t just wake up with a gun. He woke up with a story. A story of isolation, rejection, and a world that stopped listening. Sound familiar? You don’t need a weapon to wound. Many of you are carrying a silent arsenal right now:

• The clip of “I’m not good enough.”
• The silencer of “No one will hear me anyway.”
• The trigger finger of toxic self-talk that fires every time you look in the mirror.

The tragedy in San Diego is a macro explosion of what happens when we ignore the micro implosions. The shooter’s manifesto—like so many before—wasn’t just a list of grievances. It was a symptom. A symptom of a society that has forgotten how to grieve, how to connect, and how to say “I see your pain” before it turns into rage.

Here’s your brutal lesson from the Gaslamp: You cannot heal a wound you refuse to acknowledge. The person who shot up the street corner didn’t fail because he was evil. He failed because he never learned that pain is not a plan.

Stop romanticizing your rage. Stop telling yourself that your resentment is