News: The New (Old) Spree Shooter

Sadly, we're all pretty familiar with the spree shooters of the VA Tech variety by now. In addition to their ilk, we've also seen other killers ostensibly motivated by religion or politics. But, as the past few weeks have shown, "economic climate change" has produced its own brand of threats:





It's one of the oldest sources of mass shootings - disgruntlement at the workplace. You've seen it in cheesy movies (most of my favorite Michael Douglas quotes come from "Falling Down") and it's even entered the popular lexicon: "going postal." Though the source of the violence is more easily understood than with other spree killers, it doesn't make what happens any less bloody.

It's also no coincidence both of these shootings came after lawsuits about retirement benefits. One of the byproducts of the adversarial U.S. legal system is, unfortunately, the animosity that can be generated between the parties in a case. Not sure if there's any way to "fix" that.