Are Mass Murders on the Rise?  In the year since Orange County's
deadliest mass murder, dozens more have died in similar
massacres around the nation including Friday's school shooting.
Why is this happening?  It's barely a year since Orange County
suffered its deadliest mass murder when eight people were killed
by a lone gunman at a Seal Beach salon. Since that tragedy,
dozens more have been killed in similar massacres, victims of a
disturbing increase in mass murders.  July brought the Aurora
movie theater massacre, in which 12 people were killed and 58
wounded. A UC Irvine professor was arrested in late July before
carrying out what authorities say was a plot to shoot, in his
own words, 200 students at an Irvine high school. In August,
there was the shooting at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin that left
seven dead. In October, a gunman killed three women in a beauty
salon in Casselberry, Fla. A few days later, another gunman
killed three women and wounded four at a Brookfield, Wis.,
beauty salon.  Last month, two