Was the horror of the Columbine High shootings not huge enough a tragedy to mobilise a country to review its gun control policies? 8 years ago the press had acted like they did now--Oh! how could it have happened! Oh! Alas! The country mourns, oh, horror swept across the world, oh, is there perhaps something wrong with our liberal gun control policies?

Of course there are a million other factors contributing to the incident, beyond just gun control policies, yet the fact remains that accessibility to arms hadn't decreased that dramatically since the last shooting, to allow for history to repeat itself on a greater scale.

Pumping widespread terror across the nation with the press blaring out images and descriptions in such a vivid manner is not helping, either. Would terror not justify that people be allowed to own firearms too, just to 'defend' themselves against the potential 'minority' who threatens their lives?

*shudder* everything is such a huge paradox. I don't know how to make things better either, but if the government were to impose stricter laws upon gun control, and if the media would stop magnifying the waves of fear and violence, would things get better, perhaps?