The young age of the school students slaughtered by a gunman in Connecticut, Friday, makes this crime palpably more horrific, shocking and perplexing.
Which may have been the point.
Or, as the specifics of this tragedy become clearer, its meaning might simply spring from the misfortune that the prime target of a desperate gunman happened to be a kindergarten teacher — and the 20 young students around her were killed in a bid to extend the damage by destroying the things that she cherished.
