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"Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream." -- Euripides |
Chasing the information is never easy. From all the news accounts, we see how hard everyone -- including the media -- is working to find some hidden aberrations to complete the profile, to make the killer into a mental health problem, or a terrorist, or a very angry man.
The concern of course is that with all this attention on the gunman and his victims that others will want to try a copy-cat situation. How will we know who those persons are and stop them? What else can we do to minimize the likelihood that this will happen again?
No answers yet. Add this event to the last several, and you have to wonder what kind of a society we have become. Leading up to this mass shooting event, here's what we look like:
•Orlando Nightclub (49 dead, 58 wounded)
•Virginia
Tech (32 dead, 17 wounded)
•Sandy
Hook Elementary School (26 dead, 2 wounded)
•Killeen,
Texas Luby’s Cafeteria (23 dead, 27 wounded)
For more detailed recommendations on this topic, see my column published on October 9th, called "America as a Killing Field," which includes my thoughts on what more we need in terms of regulation.
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