There I said it, and I believe it. But I hate feeling obliged to join the chorus of people who feel compelled to say the obvious. I think one of the reasons people have to declare how horrified they are is that horror is the only easy and simple response.
Blame is hard and complex.
We are a nation and a people committed to the idea of free will. But we have a culture which believes in impersonal forces. These are not merely tough questions, they are unanswerable. But just because they are unanswerable doesn t mean the same old answers won t come from the same old places. The familiar pattern has already begun.