Responsibility?tangential

April 18, 2007

Moving on with the reference lists and text citations of this edited manuscript (Unmarried Couples with Children), it occurs to me that the parents of the shooter — who run a dry cleaning business in Centreville — we forget this in thinking of the thirty-two dead who shouldn't be — have themselves lost a child but as well and perhaps more significantly seemingly must have some sense, perhaps an overwhelming sense (misguided or otherwise), of responsibility for what happened.

How desperate, how agonizing, such a feeling would be ...