I see people raising their hands. Huh? Without mercy, without feeling, a kid in Virginia mows down students and teachers? Huh?

The usual explanations have been vetted already: permissive gun laws, holes in the mental health safety net, failures to reach out, failures to understand. A couple of days after the Blacksburg calamity, it was reported that classmates of Seung-Hui Cho, years earlier, had been "mean" to him, had teased and derided him.

All of which may be true. ...

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