There is always a reason.

Mohd Merah is dead, killed by a police sniper as he tried to flee out of a window while firing his gun. We will never know why he killed 7 people. " You kill my brothers so I am killing you," he told the first soldier as he shot him at point blank range. From the nature of his victims, 3 soldiers who were Muslims, 3 Jewish children and 1 rabbi, everyone assumed that it would be a neo-nazi but it turned out to be a Muslim trained by Al Qaeda. Robert Bales, a US soldier killed 17 Afghan civilians in cold blood on March 11, 9 children and 8 adults. He has been reported as taking revenge for a roadside bomb which killed US soldiers. Americans are invaders and any US soldier is surely fair game for Afghan freedom fighters so his excuse is unacceptable. On March 11, 2004 191 people were killed in Madrid train bombings just 3 days before general elections. The then Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar blamed ETA, a Basque separatist group fighting for independence from Spain. It turned out to be the work of Muslim militants and Aznar lost the elections to Jose Luis Zapatero of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party who led his country into bankruptcy. On July 22, 2011 a bomb went off in front of government offices in Oslo killing 8 and everyone immediately suspected Muslim militants until Anders Breivik turned up on Uttoya island where he methodically shot dead 69 young people of the Workers league of the Labour Party. Every time a massacre happens somewhere in the world people seem shocked as to how it is possible for anyone to kill innocent people, especially beautiful little children. Yet these events continue take place regularly and everyone of the killers always has an excuse. Whether it is honor killings in India or the practical trials of atom bombs by Harry Truman there is always some reason for butchery which seems naturally rational to the butcher. Of all animals human beings alone are capable of killing their own species with such savagery. Perhaps as the top predator in the world it is no fun killing other species, it is too easy. With the killing power of modern weapons all we need is one charismatic leader and our species could be virtually wiped out. Hitler had his Holocaust, Stalin his Great Purge, Mao his Cultural Revolution and Bush his WMDs. Each man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Perhaps it is best. Once the smoke clears mother nature can once again create a peaceful earth filled with beautiful flowers, animals and birds. Until humans rise again.