COMMENT | The headlines are only the headlines. If the recent school stabbing had taken place in a remote town, we would have passed it off with typical urban detachment as a “shocking crime” that happens only in ulu (remote) places among people lacking ambition and aspiration.

Had it occurred in a religious school, we would probably shrug our shoulders, saying it’s not surprising since they are closed shops anyway. 

“In any case, why don’t these folk send their children to a secular school to learn about the real world instead of cocooning themselves in this way?”

Now we despair because Damansara Utama is too close for comfort, too near to the places we eat, shop and dream about the future for our children and their children. This is the Klang Valley.

But now there is also this fear that if it happens once, it will happen again, somehow, sometime. And...