Virginia Tech Shootings

Some comments on the Virginia Tech University shootings. Are you surprised by it? Probably not. And that is the saddest part of the incident aside from the loss of life itself. I think society now expects such acts every once in awhile, largely because in this age of terrorism, violence is seen as an antidote to a person's complaints, even when the complaints are private ones.
We don't know what motivated the shooter (since he is dead) but I find the world wide reactions to it to be curious. There is mostly the simplistic and incomplete analysis "that's the U.S. gun culture" is responsible.
For example, the Australian Prime Minister gave a rambling speech about guns being too freely available in America (they are but are constitutionally protected) being the cause of the disgruntled student's rampage. He smugly condemned the fact that we have too many guns here...and then sheepishly said "but it could happen here or anywhere". So despite his moralistic tirade he does get the larger picture. The point is that such incidents have happened in a number of places in the world, and that in the age of terrorism no society is free of guns and or senseless gun violence.
Another curious simplification after the shootings I noticed has been concluded by many is the aspect of blame. The Virginia Tech students and many others outside the campus "blame" the university for the shooting, as if it can guarantee safety on a university campus of 25,000 students, spread out among endless acres. "They should have warmed us". "They could have prevented it". I think not. How can any society guarantee or anticipate such an irrational display as the killing. I think we shall soon hear of lawsuits against the school (or whomever has the most money to give to litigants who chase after it with lawsuits) alleging that Virginia Tech University was "negligent in allowing the killing rampage.
A third curiosity I see is in the nature of context. The killing of the 33 students is horrific, but such things happen every day in Iraq, a nation that has lost many thousands of its people to similar acts of random murder. The Mid east and Africa has such slaughters regularly. Yet the world grieves and moralizes about Virginia Tech. I suppose we are "used to" the equally senseless terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere, so we fail to be outraged anymore at those. But that is not a healthy perspective to take, and for one, I see that there is a link between terrorism in a conflict area and mass murder on a college campus. The latter should remind us to take more notice of the former. If we lose our shock and outrage at either we lose part of our humanity. Anyway, what is your reaction to the massacre and its ramifications?