 Quote, violence has no place in our country, quote. They always say those words, those rote and vacuous words. But it does have a place here. It claimed it long ago. That's our problem. As I write, they are calling the 20-year-old would-be assassin a loner. They have been calling assassins and mass murderers loners since I was a child, she says, since Lee Harvey Oswald. For loners, they sure are a big group.