This doesn’t go where I thought it was going, Jessica, but it provides much food for thought. You did get something wrong though, Long was in rehab for sex addiction and in transitional housing for at least six months. His “first thought” was not to kill sex workers. His first thought was to seek help. It wasn’t until those efforts failed that he resorted to violence. We don’t know all the facts yet, but although all the aspects of our sick society you mentioned are relevant, I think the underlying tragedy is that mentally ill people are not getting the help they need and they should not have access to guns. Things like this will continue to happen until we fix that.