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We really ought to start listening to these people’s parents: Like the parents of the accused Christmas Day bomber, the parents of John Patrick Bedell, the man who shot two police officers at the Pentagon on Thursday, had warned police about their son. Bedell’s parents reported their son missing January 4 and told police that they were worried he had purchased a gun after reading an email he had written. Bedell then returned to his parents on January 18 and told them “not to ask any questions,” before disappearing again. It is believed that he set off on the cross-country journey that ended with his death Friday morning.