re: #83 Killgore Trout

I agree but I think it’s important to realize that the increased press coverage of selected shootings doesn’t represent the reality of the situation. They are motivated by ratings and creating hype, not by a serious discussion of gun violence. Even as I was typing this the newscasters mentioned Sandy Hook even though this shooting (so far) looks completely unrelated on almost every level.

I have to respectfully disagree, I think the increased media coverage has stripped the thin veneer that has kept reports of such violence limited to the local level for years. That gun violence is an “urban” problem, with all the dark connotations that word carries, and that the problem is something that should be addressed by cracking down on a certain set of people rather than addressing the prevalence of guns in this nation.