Script for mass shootings

Act 1:  A crazy guy gets his hands on automatic weapons (easy in the U.S.) and shoots a large number of people he didn’t know.

Act 2:  Police and emergency personnel respond bravely; individuals also engage in heroic acts.

Act 3:  The press reports on human interest stories of the victims.  Some are parents, children, husbands, wives, close friends.  People weep.

Act 4:  Various editorials and people with common sense call for increased restrictions on the ability to buy weaponry on-line, at gun shows, and in private sales.

Act 5:  Nothing happens because the legislators soil their pants at the thought of taking on the N.R.A.

Repeat the sequence.