What really worries me about the pattern we've been seeing in the past few months, is that if ANY of these attacks are influenced by the current state of the nation, then we're going to be seeing more and more attacks by very intelligent people.
This has been my theory about the recent spike in 'well-calculated' massacres anyhow.
Extreme mental cases aside, most of our happiness is rooted in a couple of key things, namely companionship, and security. And in terms of security (I don't just mean life threats), we're in a very bad spot now with the economic troubles. Traditionally, people who were well educated didn't have much to worry about when it came to financial security. Now that we're entering a time when you can end up jobless, poor, and homeless, no matter how educated you are, that means we have a lot of VERY smart people who are experiencing far more stress than anyone ever could have imagined. So now all those VERY smart people are teetering on the edge of insanity.
So, I guess you could say we're turning into a nation of Super-villains waiting to happen. But I'm use that term loosely. I don't want to insult any of the red-siders.