A Lot of 'Randomness' About

~Some readers have wondered why I have not commented on the weekend shooting at Brown University. That's chiefly because I have no insight into the event you haven't heard from others:

The loss of a child offends the natural order. The loss of a child at Christmas taints the season for what's left of a parent's life. We know the murder of Sarah Beckstrom at Thanksgiving was a direct consequence of government policy whose terrible costs do not fall on those who impose it. Why Ella Cook was killed we cannot yet say. However, her fellow victim has now been named:

So a rare public conservative on a left-wing campus and a young man called Mukhammad are killed in the classroom of a Jewish professor. Any or none of those could be relevant factors. Alternatively, it could be some other motive - or no motive at all. Just the rotten luck of the draw. I hope we shall find out, but - thanks to the usual clown-car of forty-eight different municipal, county, state and federal "law-enforcement" agencies - the murderer remains at large. As Josh writes in our comments section:

Everyone in the vicinity of Providence, RI—be on the lookout for a blurry man with a mask. That is all. As in, 'that is all we know.'

Well, not all. The police assure us that:

'Providence citizens are safe. But the Brown Univ shooter's whereabouts are unknown & he's armed and dangerous.'...