1.   At the memorial service Thursday for the seven victims of the mass shooting in Wakefield, Mass., Cardinal Bernard Law offered words of comfort.

2.   Before then, schools had to heighten their security to protect students from internal threats involving other students bent on committing mass shootings.

3.   Across the country, the mass shooting again raised questions about teen-agers and the often violent popular culture they are immersed in.

4.   But mass shootings have become an American tradition.

5.   During the mass shootings the killers proudly posed for photos and sent them home to their wives and kids.

6.   Few of these people commit murder, of course, and mass shootings by the mentally ill account for only a tiny fraction of all homicides.

7.   For most post-war Germans, even those in the former Communist east, mass shootings seemed like the kind of thing that happened only in the United States.

8.   In Fort Worth, as in other cities known for their mass shootings at schools, motive takes a back seat to means.

9.   In the chaos after a mass shooting in an Atlanta office building, Cabrer kept going.

10.   It was the latest in a series of recent mass shootings across the country.