"We can’t go out and lock up all the socially awkward young men in the world..."

"But we have to try to prevent the unpredicted." Says a psychiatrist quoted in a WaPo article titled "Predicting violence is ...

"Mr. Loughner, for the first and last time, you are going to hear directly from Gabby and me about what you took away on January 8th, 2011..."

"... and, just as important, what you did not. So pay attention." ... Mr. Loughner, by making death and producing tragedy, you sou...

After more than a year of forcible medication to treat his schizophrenia, Jared Loughner is found competent and pleads guilty.

He will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A suggestion for those of you who are tempted to devote time to understanding the psyche of the Aurora massacre madman.

Contemplate the psyche of someone you know and can speak to and relate to in your immediate life. What if you had known James Eagen Holmes, ...

"No one pretends that better laws would prevent all tragedies, but if that were the standard, then we wouldn't pass any laws at all."

On NPR last evening, the topic was the Aurora movie-theater murders, and the NPR host, Robert Siegel, invited WaPo's E.J. Dionne to comm...

"Victim of Canadian porn star cannibal is Chinese gay lover as police reveal 'murderer' is on the run in France... dressed as a woman."

A Daily Mail headline. Are you having trouble keeping your cannibals in the news straight? (No pun intended!) I mean there's the porn-r...

"I have these other aspects of my life that no one knows about. I’m an artist. I’m a musician."

"Nobody knows that... They just see me at the guy who tried to kill Reagan.” In the wake of last year’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giff...

"As the testimony proceeded, Mr. Loughner rarely made eye contact with others in the courtroom, sometimes peering at the witness out of the corner of his eye."

"For the most part, he remained stone-faced and still in his seat. Every now and then, his eyes would close for extended periods, then ...

Jared Loughner has a "strong personal interest in not being forced to suffer the indignity and risk of bodily injury that results from the administration of powerful drugs."

Says the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel, extending the ban on forcing psychotropic drugs on the man accused of the Tucson massacre. Mr. ...

"Thank you for the freak show. She died in front of me. You’re treasonous." Jared Loughner yelled....

... just before Judge Larry A. Burns found him incompetent to stand trial. At his first courtroom appearance shortly after the shootings, M...

Paul Krugman says "So, let’s try another shot to the head."

I realize he's talking about a misconception , and he has designated the misconception a "zombie," and according to zombie lor...