Biggest waste of police time ever?

Now obviously, the death of 12 innocent people in a shooting spree is a massive tragedy. But does it really require 100 detectives to be assigned?

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The facts are pretty clear: a guy shot 23 people, 12 of them fatally, then shot himself. There's no doubt about who committed the crimes- and he's in the morgue. The long and the short of it is, a massive cunt killed 12 people, for no good reason.

I fail to see what's going to be achieved by assigning 100 detectives to the case, beyond eliciting random gossip for the tabloid press. We will never know what was going through the killer's mind, because the last thing to go through it was a bullet from his own gun.

This is of course an unbearable tragedy for the families of the victims- not only have they lost a loved one, they can never know why, because the killer can never tell. And 'justice' can never be done, because the killer can never face a court of law.

And so, as far as I'm concerned, case closed. Bear in mind that 12 people dead is a fraction smaller than the per-person average of the four 7/7 bombers. There was, as I remember, considerable investigation into that tragedy too, and the conclusion was basically that they too were a gang of massive cunts, and that there wasn't much to be done about it.

These things happen. People die randomly every day- 8 people per day on average die in road accidents in this country, and there's rarely any 'justice' for their families, just the long gnawing pain of bereavement. A grown up society should just accept that pointless death is a tragic fact of life, and move on.

And, for reasons of full disclosure, no I don't own a gun or a shotgun, or a licence for either. But I can see where this is heading, and I don't like it.