Seventeen days ago, in the Times of San Diego, I wrote that no San Diego house of worship is safe until all of them are. I named the Islamic Center of San Diego specifically.
I wrote that it had been flooded with hate flyers. I wrote that a local Imam already needed armed security simply to hold Friday prayers. I called those things signals, and I wrote that when institutions and community members fail to act on signals, people get hurt.
On Monday, people got hurt. Three adults were killed at the Islamic Center. A security guard is among the dead — a man who stood his post at the largest mosque in this county and did not survive it. Children were inside. Teachers were inside. They are safe tonight only by the mercy of timing and the courage of people who put themselves between a gunman and a classroom…