No, my comment probably wasn’t clear. I wrote it when there was no real info on just what happened, and I was pointing out the odds. (It does turns out the gunman seemed to be looking for a girlfriend, and also had a history of stalking women.) It’s the odds when you hear of a murder at a home, you look at the spouse or significant other, and odds are that’s the culprit. Not always, but the odds are. And when I hear shooting at a school or workplace like this (and esp. at an engineering school, which sadly are still hotbeds of misogyny) I think misogynist male shooter, because that’s what the odds tell us is likely.

The Oklahoma City bombing killed considerably more than this shooting spree has.

It is in no way a diminishment of the horror of today’s events to put it into a proper relationship. We ignore the rest to our shame.

Furthermore, it should be noted that this tragedy happens on a regular basis in Baghdad and in other cities across the world.

http://www.displaysforschools.com/history.html

The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah wiped out about 120 souls, at least a third of them shot through the head.

The other comment I would offer is that “mass shooting” seems a little limited in terms of killing people. Why eliminate “mass murderers” like David Burke, who killed 43 people by shooting the pilots of a plane, causing it to crash?

I do feel for the families of these victims.

I would suggest Wounded Knee and Sand Creek were much worse. But the killed at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee were by and large people of color.

Still, I can’t help thinking of the old Boomtown Rats song. Maybe the shooter would have said he just didn’t like Mondays.