I mis-reported something in my previous post. I said Adam Lanza did this with a pair of pistols. At that time, that was the report I had, from early news items that did not mention the assault rifle. But he used one after all, so a correction is in order. I also said 26 people had been killed, but that was students and teachers and did not include Lanza’s mother, who he killed at home and was apparently the first victim, nor Lanza himself.
I said “we are a people enamored with violence” and yes, I meant Americans, but obviously that is no real distinction, and the bizarreness of such incidents is hardly confined to us. …