How I wish people wouldn't react to the shootings in Colorado...

Many of us in the United States had a similar story to tell last Friday morning, that is if our morning routine includes any contact at all with the world outside our home, be it via television, newspaper or the Internet. Shortly after midnight, a crazed gunman had sprayed a theater audience in Colorado with bullets during the first ticketed showing of The Dark Knight Rises. Twelve people died, and dozens more were injured.

As could be expected, the news media have had a field day. They loudly...