Eerily similar to our own Prime Minister Trudeau who tried to rationalize the Boston Marathon bombing by saying someone felt "completed excluded from society" and over the coming days "we need to look for root causes". After he was taken to task by the media, he too finally came around to condemning the perpetrator. As Stephen Harper said at the time: "When you see this kind of action, when you see this kind of violent act, you do not sit around trying to rationalize it or make excuses for it or figure out its root causes -  you condemn it categorically and to the extent that you can deal with the perpetrators you deal with them as harshly as possible".  Amen.