Headlines we can plan to see a lot more of, because of the Justices' not surprising trouble with punctuation in the Bush era—just a very few that the Los Angeles Times and New York Times reported on this year.

But please don’t just think of of the victims. Think also of the families and friends—of the many hundreds, of the huge circles of people--that just these very, very few homicides have touched.

14 people slain in L.A. County over the weekend
Groom found shot dead in Pico Rivera
Crash investigators find man shot in the head
Handguns discovered with five bodies
Boy, 17, fatally shot in Hollywood
A Torrance man kills son and mother-in-law
Student shot in Oxnard
Woman shot to death in Gardena
Rifleman opens fire before festival at Granada Hills church
East L.A. rocked by double homicides
Woman shot dead on Hollywood Freeway offramp
Boy, 12, is killed, man wounded in Long Beach shooting
Second homicide in four days in Santa Monica
Street shooting claims another child—this time in Echo Park
Man shoots wife, kidnaps 2 sons
Boy, 6, shot in the head
A youth ‘on track’ until fatal gunfire
Shooting at south Florida restaurant leaves two dead
In Maryland, boy charged in four deaths [of parents and brothers]
One survivor at shooting in Illinois mall
Gunman kills five people at City Council meeting
Student kills two and himself at a Louisiana college
Student shot at a school in Memphis