The Brown University shooting in Rhode Island is more than a crime scene; it is a deep tear in the fabric of a community that believed, as most campuses do, that it was at least somewhat insulated from the worst of the world. Two students were killed, several others were injured, and a campus that once buzzed with end-of-semester stress is now soaked in a kind of disbelief that does not easily fade. The gunman is still at large, and no one knows why this happened. That not knowing sits in the...

The Brown University shooting in Rhode Island is more than a crime scene; it is a deep tear in the fabric of a community that believed, as most campuses do, that it was at least somewhat insulated from the worst of the world. Two students were killed, several others were injured, and a campus that once buzzed with end-of-semester stress is now soaked in a kind of disbelief that does not easily fade. The gunman is still at large, and no one knows why this happened. That not knowing sits in the...