re: #17 Dark_Falcon

It’s a winner, too, especially given what’s coming out about Lanza. It’s a nice lurid angle that appeals very much to how news is covered in America. It also has the benefit of being closely related to the cause of (and possibly the main cause of) this horrific event.

There are always going to be people who go off the deep end somehow or another. The details, bluntly, don’t matter. All that one can do on that front by way of policy is to try to catch as much as possible in advance of any horrible acts. This takes resources, which are in short supply. Of course, this has nothing to do with gun control, which is why it is so useful for the right.

Gun control relates to what happens after someone goes off the deep end. The nature and lethality of the resulting events depends greatly on the number of guns in the country and on the culture surrounding guns and violence. The US appears to be uniquely toxic on both fronts.

Why does American exceptionalism have to include the most numerous and lethal rampages in the developed world? Why is doing anything about either the guns or the gun culture politically unthinkable?