On March 27, three nine-year-old students and three staff members at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., were shot to death by a 28-year-old former student. More than two weeks later, that is still all we know for sure about this atrocity.
As NBC News reported over the weekend, “Investigators have not yet identified a clear motive in the attacker’s journal writings, and authorities have not provided any details publicly to back up their early suggestion that the shooter may have felt resentment toward the school.” Although public reporting indicates that the shooter suffered from mental-health problems, targeted that school specifically, and allegedly struggled to some degree with her gender identity, law-enforcement officials have established “no direct motive” for the killings.
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