How America Deals With Gun Violence

http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1247

After seeing the first reports on the Newtown shootings, I knew I could skip any "news" coming out after that as I'd seen the same cycle of public anguish, slobbering media frenzy, and useless "solutions" every time this had happened -- going back to Columbine High, if not earlier. I'd reached the point where I could guess exactly what was going to happen, and when -- the wailing and moaning, the candlelight vigils, the media circus, the spasms of mass insanity, the political exploitation, the loss of media interest, the return to "normal".