I had prepared a full slate of other news items to cover today, but it doesn't look like I will be able to talk about anything before addressing yesterday's massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The story is quite emotionally disturbing, even more so than the school shootings we've seen in the past because most of the victims are so young, between the ages of 5 and 10. This kind of massacre is usually the work of a disaffected and mentally unstable adolescent who lashes out at his teenaged peers. In this case, the killer was apparently a 20-year-old with a "personality disorder" who shot his mother, then drove to the school where she worked and attacked the faculty and students there.
Reason and Emotion in Newtown
Reason and Emotion in Newtown
Reason and Emotion in Newtown
I had prepared a full slate of other news items to cover today, but it doesn't look like I will be able to talk about anything before addressing yesterday's massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The story is quite emotionally disturbing, even more so than the school shootings we've seen in the past because most of the victims are so young, between the ages of 5 and 10. This kind of massacre is usually the work of a disaffected and mentally unstable adolescent who lashes out at his teenaged peers. In this case, the killer was apparently a 20-year-old with a "personality disorder" who shot his mother, then drove to the school where she worked and attacked the faculty and students there.