Town Hall - Guy Benson:
It's really quite extraordinary that several days after the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, the public still has no solid explanation for why the killer acted. It's that enduring mystery, I think, that makes this story so uniquely creepy and unsettling -- in addition to being profoundly sickening and appalling, for all the obvious reasons. The Pulse nightclub shooter pledging allegiance to ISIS as he slaughtered innocent revelers on a Saturday night was evil and stomach-turning, but it "made sense." It fit neatly, if horrifyingly, into an intuitive box. Political zealots trying to eliminate the objects of their hatred (think the Family Research Council and Scalise ambushes) also "makes sense." Likewise, there's something understandable, amidst the evil, about disgruntled workers or ex-lovers resorting to unhinged violence. The same applies to criminally insane obsessives or troubled loners, as we saw with in the Gabby Giffords incident, and at Sandy Hook.
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