Why students?

Why students? I just don't get it. Not that an incident like this latest Montreal massacre is ever comprehensible - it isn't.

But students are at the very dawn of their adult life. Dawson College is a CEGEP, which is more like a senior high school than University. The kids being shot at were just beginning the journey, with most of their lives ahead of them. The young woman who died was only eighteen years of age - younger than my eldest daughter.

Why do evil people always target the most promising among us? Why do they always want to rob those who haven't had their chance yet?