Why the violence?

It's a couple days after some loonytoons broke into a grammar school in Newtown, Connecticut, and shot 26 people. He killed his mother before he left home, too. And killed himself.

No one so far has been able to proivde any kind of plausible reason, except the kid was nuts somehow. Apparently he played a lot of video games, but he was20 years old, too. Not exactly "a kid."

He had been diagnosed with Asperger's -- a high-functioning autism. But I've never of autism generating violent behavior. Maybe just the opposite.

There's the usual talk about "adjusting the 2nd Amendment to suit today's realities." No. What happens -- and it's been proven statistically -- when and where guns are banned, then only criminals own guns. I mean, criminals are not people who are apt to abide by the law, are they? John Lott has some interesting statistics on that. And if that kid in Connecticut didn't have access to guns, he could have made bomb with a Coke bottle and a spritzer of gasoline. Would have done the trick, I'm guessing.

The school had some security. The guns the kid used were registered and licensed. His mother was a gun collector, and had taken care to show him how to use the guns.

I can't imagine walking into a first grade classroom and gunning down the kids and their teacher, and their principal, and the school psychologist, etc. Of 26 victims, 20 of them were six and seven years old. Horrible.

Then tonight, sick of the non-stop reporting on every detail of every victim's life -- each was a hero in his or her own way, of course, and certainly not one of them had done anything to justify their murder -- I'm not being cynical, I mean that. Anyway, I got sick of listening to it, so turned on a movie, "Taken," With Liam Niessen.

So Liam Niessen is a dedicated father to a 17-year-old who lives with her mother and her mother's second husband. Niessen is a former CIA operative who retired to be near his daughter. Long story short, the daughter goes to Paris, get kidnapped by a white slave ring, and Niessen goes rogue to find her.

And he kills about 30 people along the way. All very bad guys, mind you, including a corrupt cop, a bunch of thuggish Albanians, and the sheik who eventually bought the daughter.

Niessen kills all of them. To save his daughter.

And did you ever see the movie "Ronan," with Robert De Niro? Another version of "Let's see how many people we can kill in Paris." For a good cause.

I can't imagine why a kid with some kind of personality defect would resort to violence.

I mean, wherever did he get the idea that violence is a solution?

That's all.