My favorite quote for the NRA crowd is from John Sandford:

"Guns don't kill people, poeple kill people. . .
Guns just make it really really easy."

As for the idea that this stuff didn't happen before, check out the massacre in Bath, Michigan, in the 1930s. Bath hasn't been the same since. We've got more overall access to events now, and a blaring media.

It seems that this latest killer, Paddock, had no precursor signs. Well, his father was a top wanted criminal for one thing, and for another, we don't have all the facts yet.