For four days and four nights, the tears have been pouring down America's face from coast to coast, and the whole cultured world has been crying as well. The U.S. is a violent country. There are weapons in almost every home, available to anyone. Twenty-seven murder victims is a drop in the bucket compared to the annual death toll. America was not crying over the massacre in Newton but rather over the abyss of evil. It wasn't only that young innocent souls that were taken for no reason, it was also, mainly, the realization of a massive fear that hell is lurking everywhere, around every corner, at a neighbor's house or in the hands of a nephew. The media covered the story extensively, play by play, never letting up. The big shame was not in the discovery of yet another detail or yet another surprise. It was not in the detective work that revealed that it wasn't the brother who was the murderer, and that the mother was not the cause of this demonic outburst. The fascinating aspect of the media coverage was in trying to figure out why this would happen in Connecticut, of all places, and why things like this keep happening time after time in the continent that lies between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Had the murderer been a poor student, bullied by his classmates or humiliated by his parents, the self-proclaimed experts would point to these factors as the cause of his murderous outburst. But even if he was a gifted student, ahead of his classmates and the object of their admiration, the same experts would find a motive there to explain this terrible act. That is because at the end of 2012, the fields of psychology and criminology still cannot compile the profile of such a killer. Therefore, science, or the education system, can't build a model of a likely suspect. There are no marked individuals to watch. Anything can happen. The U.S. and Western democracy can't accept that there is no model; that this type of crime cannot be prevented. There is nothing quite as powerful as an American who truly believes that every problem has a solution. If only we all sit down, on both sides of the table, and really examine the problem and conduct the right experiments, we can obtain an effective result. That kind of approach is the secret of America's success in the 20th century the period known as the "American century." But that is just not how reality works. There are tough human problems that just don't have a psychological solution. There is no way to resolve certain individuals' issues with themselves, or the way they function within society. The U.S. can improve its defenses in the face of mass violence in its educational institutions, it can put an armed guard at the entrance of every school, Israeli-style, but in the foreseeable future there is no possibility that the U.S. can predict this violence. Anyway, the U.S. does not have the ability to foil mass murders before they happen. It is hard to accept a mass murder, perpetrated by man, as if it were a natural disaster. It is hard to accept that nothing can be done to prevent it from happening. The U.S. is the last nation on earth that would be willing to admit defeat or take satisfaction merely in providing security and health services after the fact to minimize the damage. It is sad, but helplessness is the name of the game in cases like this. That is what American is crying about, and the world is crying with it.