Natural Selection

Finnish police have come up with a brilliant diagnosis of the motive for Wednesday's high school massacre: the perpetrator and self-styled "natural selector", Pekka-Eric Auvinen, was "bent on exacting maximum damage". This is certainly helpful.

Auvinen, who was eighteen, felt "cast out and bullied by his fellow pupils". As is usual after this sort of event, there are calls for greater gun control, and if cast-out and bullied adolescents continue posting rants on YouTube there will doubtless be calls for greater internet control. Calls for greater bully control, if they are being made, are evidently not worth reporting.