The mainstream media gun control crowd tried desperately to cash in on the emotion of the event. To get a knee jerk reaction in law before cooler more rational thinking prevailed. To get us to agree with the surrender of our rights in an emotional echo chamber.
Exibit 1: The TSA
Does anyone remember Ruby Ridge, or WACO where 70 some people were killed including 18 kids who were 12 years old and under all because the feds were enforcing their wonderful gun control laws?
This is what eventually happens when the feds go wild with their anti-gun laws.