I think the most damning thing I can say about this is, one of my 17 year olds said to me before, "I'm surprised it even makes the news these days."
Apart from condolences to the families, what can you say that hasn't been said a hundred times before? I'll never understand that nation's obsession with guns, and to be honest, I'm probably past caring now. Obama say that surely they can make small changes to the gun regulations, but you can bet your last pound the NRA and Republicans will call for more guns in the next few days. Gun sales will increase over the next few weeks, and on and on it goes. I know it's wrong to generalise an entire nation, but when I think of an image that conjures up a typical American, I don't think of the many decent ones. I picture a Bible bashing, bigoted, evolution denying, Yosemite Sam lookalike.