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David Ignatius - We ignore the Jared Loughners among us

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"His thoughts were unrelated to anything in our world," his philosophy professor, Kent Slinker, said in an interview with Slate's Christopher Beam. He was, Slinker said, "someone whose brains were scrambled." And yet he kept on rolling toward the Safeway parking lot, buying his gun, buying his ammo, leaving behind crazy YouTube videos that were advertisements of his madness. Like most of the problems that matter, Jared Loughner didn't sneak up on us and catch us by surprise. We saw him coming and didn't do anything about it.
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