Utterly senseless and tragic of course, but as others have alluded to, hardly remarkable when put into the wider context of human barbarism and human-made famine (i.e. all famine now) globally. Thus was it ever so and all that.
What? It is very remarkable that this happens in the richest nation on earth at a rate that is totally out of proportion to any other Western country. The 'wider context' is that this does not happen in other OECD countries. Absurd statement.