Comment Re:Mandatory panic! (Score 1) 421
Those shootings happen so rarely in practice that all the outrage about them is just farce, and the security measures are just theater. Much like terrorism, the chances of your kid dying in a shooting are so low as to be negligible, especially compared to the real dangers such as cars and swimming pools.
But because it is very easy to hype, and hype gets eyeballs - and therefore sells ads - the media keeps blowing it all out of proportion, and hence you have a moral panic about guns.