not our fault

Is there such a thing as mass murder, distinct from other human behaviors and having common characteristics?  A lot of people are sad, but they are all sad in different degrees and for different reasons.  

And then there is depression, which is sort of a medical condition.  You have to be sad for long periods, and sad when there are no specific reasons for being so.  There seems to be some genetic component, but complicated, not simple like blue eyes and brown eyes, and then you never know if having a depressed parent makes you depressed when you grow up just because of that environment.  And one doctor may call you depressed and another think otherwise.

    

Then there is measles.  It's easy to tell when someone has it, they all have pretty much the same symptoms that you don't see in other people who don't have measles, but even better than that all the doctor has to do is take a bit of blood and there is the measles virus, distinguishable from other viruses, and people who have the virus have measles and those who don't, don't.

That's what much of this mass murder discussion is all about.  These are terrible events.  Shouldn't we find the roots of it?  Then we can pull it out right by the roots and be done with it.  Just like the way we licked smallpox, but with smallpox we figured out what the virus was and then we figured out a way to defeat it.  

But there is no specific marker for mass murderers, different people do it for different reasons.  The brain is a complicated machine and sometimes it will go if its rails and end up aiming at a bunch of people in a parking lot, and there is nothing to be done about it.  Well we could do a few things to decrease the number of victims, like the stuff we do to cut down on deaths from hurricanes, but that is not likely to happen.  Even a little matter like bump stocks, I see where Ryan is trying to kick it to the ATF because nobody (some of my beloved dems included) wants to see a gun control measure loose in congress.

Anyway I read a thing lately where the Yellowstone caldera, a favorite of Old Dog I believe, is acting up again, and they thought they had some measure where they could tell when it was likely to blow so there would be some warning, not that there would be anything we could do about it, but now it turns out that that was false and it will just blow when it pleases, and it won't be the fault of mass murderers or not banning the bump stock or fucking the environment.  It won't be our fault at all.