In response to the many who have asked:
1. Why did G-d permit the Newtown massacre?
2. Why does G-d allow people to inflict suffering on others?
3. Why doesn’t G-d stop human suffering once and for all?
Here are the only correct answers:
1. I don’t know why G-d permitted the Newtown massacre.
2. I don’t know why G-d allows people to inflict suffering on others.
For whatever reason, G-d has only shared some personal information with us, and the answers to those (and other) questions were not included.
We must demand from G-d an end to pain, suffering, evil and tears of anguish. It’s enough. We don’t demand, or even want, explanations. (And certainly we don't make them up!) What are we going to do with explanations? Feel better about evil? We just want an end already! Gevald!
May G-d give strength to those grieving in Newtown. And may He give us all a permanent respite from suffering and injustice.
What you propose is really the ongoing argument regarding free will and determinism. Americans embrace free will as a virtue, while others contend that events are destined to happen as some greater plan. Life may just be a series of coincidences that just do not make logical sense and that is the spin of free will. Free Will allows us to be tested and allows us to fail as part of a learning process. Sometimes free will is enveloped in evil, hence the many atrocities committed by those who know no bounds, or who know the boundaries and just don't care.