But remember, even though it's easier to understand these shootings since last year's collapse, they're a product of the brutal Reaganomics we've been living under for 30 years.

Workplace shootings, in which an employee stages an armed suicide attack on his company, or supervisors, or co-workers, only began a couple of decades ago, after Reagan's Revolution successfully stripped whatever power and leverage employees once had and handed it all to the shareholders and executives.

Since then, it's been hell for an increasing number of Americans, and it's no coincidence that a brand-new crime of desperation appeared with the Reagan Revolution: the worker who "goes postal."

The first massacres began in the mid-to-late-1980s, and the shootings have repeated with such regularity that it seems we've gotten to the point where we almost accept them as part of the landscape, as if they're inevitable and they've always been with us, and always will.

Maybe that's why no one seems to have noticed or cared much that the man who shot his fellow worker, the company equipment and then himself, may very well have been mistreated and driven to the brink. Given just a small sample of what's going on in Fresno County, it's a wonder we're not all taking up arms and heading to the source of the pain.

Because Fresno County is most of America today -- the rule, and not the exception.