I begin this blog noting the media fixation on the tragedy in Colorado and the nervous hand-wringing in some circles to what should be simply a straightforward period of national grief. When incidents like this occur we react by questioning the effectiveness of gun control laws, by wondering if there were red flags that were overlooked, by pondering how anyone could commit such an act of senseless violence. Yet what is usually ignored is the obvious: we cannot now nor will we ever be able to prevent such occurrences. This is so because we deny the truth; we cannot fathom how anyone could commit such a crime because we fear to recognize that there is never a dearth of evil, that such horrors lie hidden deep within every human heart. This insecure man sought notoriety at the expense of human life; he stepped over the line that, fortunately, most of us draw.