Wouldn’t it be nice if, when someone commits an atrocity, instead of obsessing over the method they chose for their killing, or how they dressed, or where they chose to kill people, or what his social network and dating profile looked like, instead of looking at these frills and trappings, we looked at why so many people feel so alienated and lost that they choose to lash out at society this way?

Not that it would happen. If we looked at root causes we might find that we have to make real changes to solve the problem, rather than just blowing a lot of hot air to give the appearance of doing something.

And we’ll do anything, endure anything, to avoid that.