The worst school shooting in the history of the US has been all over the news and will be for a while longer. After that, we won't hear about it anymore until its first anniversary and a few more after that.
We quickly forget, but worst yet, we tend not to learn from what happens. Will the latest shooting rampage push forward laws that limit the ownership of guns by individuals in this country? Unlikely.
I had hoped that after the Columbine tragedy tighter federal laws would have been enacted, but it didn't happen. I can't imagine they will now.
The gun lobby, quite possibly the most powerful in the country, always finds ways to blame the individual and not the object of death, but tragedies of this magnitude do not happen anywhere in Europe, because weapons aren't so freely available as they are here.
I guess the American people just aren't outraged or worried enough yet.
So much sadness. Words really do become superfluous.
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