Cole Tomas Allen: Why There Is No Profile for Premeditated Violence (opens in new tab)

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting is scarcely worth mentioning. Unlike the Pennsylvania shooter, Mathew Cooke, the assailant, Cole Tomas Allen, didn’t even get past security–let alone take aim at the president. So in this sense, security was a success. I disagree with some commenters online who say that the Secret Service failed. The Secret Service will always be reactionary. Unless everyone in a vicinity is pre-screened, there will always be opportunities for bad ac...