As a resident of Virginia Beach, I should note that we just had newspaper articles last month about the anniversary of the Virginia Tech Shooting. And that I can’t turn on the local news channels any day of the week without the latest “breaking news” being yet another shooting or police investigations into a recent shooting. We had a huge festival here in VAB at the end of April that fell on what is traditionally a very busy week due to the huge college crowd, and the city was thrilled when it learned that all the added security meant this was the first such “College Beach Weekend” that didn’t end with one or more shootings.

To give you an idea of how myopic viewpoints are, there was a shooting less than a week ago in the neighboring city of Chesapeake that left 1 dead and 9 wounded. But you didn’t hear that on the national news last week because the cops don’t consider a “mass shooting” as it was two groups shooting at each other rather than one guy with a Rambo complex.