There's a knee jerk reaction.
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They are.
It's a desperately sad thing to happen. I can't begin to put myself into anybody's head. Families, survivors, parents of the shooter. What can anyone say. 
It's Russian Roulette at times out there col 
Probably not the best turn of phrase but you get my jist.
Originally Posted by velvet donkey:
Probably not the best turn of phrase but you get my jist.
I do.
American justice is totally fecked. The country that allows people carry guns yet has some of the most harshest sentencing in the world.
Does it work? No it feckin' doesn't!
"The home of the free" locks more people up than every single tyrannical regime in the world. It locks more people up, per capita, than any other nation.
Yet still it clings to its moronic notion that carrying a gun protects the private citizen against potential tyranny.
1 in every 100 Americans is in prison and then conservatives bitch about how much the state costs!
If that's bad then, 1 in 4 black men are in the penal system in America. That is irrefutable evidence that justice in America is racist.
They'll never change, the sad w****rs with their cowboy fantasies like it that way!
You don't have to be a gun toting hoodlum to get into trouble. We have our own legitimate forces that can cause harm to innocent citizens here in the UK. I'm so angry about this.