My feeling, and I suspect the feeling of most people, is that 99 percent of the blame falls on the shoulders of the crazy bastard who did the shooting, and raging against anything other than the shooter has the effect of shifting the responsibility away from where it should be.
However, having said that, I ran across Peggy Noonan's latest column that documents the lack of common sense of university officials and their failure to simply do their jobs regarding the warning signs this guy was showing. She wrote:
The literally white-bearded academic who was head of the campus
counseling center was on Paula Zahn Wednesday night suggesting the utter incompetence of officials to stop a man who had stalked two women, set a fire in his room, written morbid and violent plays and poems, been expelled from one class, and been declared by a judge to be "mentally ill" was due to the lack of a government "safety net."
The inaction or bad decisions of those at the bottom of the ladder tend to affect only themselves and maybe one or two others. When those at the top make the same error, many are affected and they usually get away clean because there is always a person or entity above them to shift the blame to. And we let them get away with it.
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