Absolutely correct. This once free and open society was held in check by our reverence for Biblical principles and restraints. What our society once was simply can no longer be because we have shaken our fist at God and said, “We dont’t want you!” And hence we get today, or the other day at the mall, or Columbine, or....
That in 1927 nutcase blew up a school in Michigan killing 38 elementary kids suggests not as much has changed as you think.
The shooter is from a liberal state (NJ) and commits the atrocity in another liberal state (Conn). But the powers that be will hail this as a problem that only the federal government can solve by passing a national firearms ban. They won’t let this crisis “go to waste”.