@BillRM,
Quote:This over the top news coverage is likely setting up other children future deaths as copycats take note of the fame they could have by using an assault rifle to kill kids.
Then there can be even more "over the top news coverage". The Accelerator Principle, on which we have been proceeding since around 1850. Soon after the Luddites were exterminated by executions and transportations and some bad treatment en route.
There's no way the tragedy could have been hushed up. Even the Chinese can't do that these days. We are where we are.
I don't really like to say it but I sometimes get the impression that Media is just lovin' it. We have all seen the undertaker in Westerns trying not to look pleased when there's a shoot out in front of the saloon.
Such a problem is so difficult to solve that it would be a lot easier to make a law like ours with a 3 month amnesty for the guns to all be handed in before they become illegal.
You have your arms sticking out of your shoulders. Bear them.