there is no easy answer to this gun issue uwe. i don't think your stereotypical view of this country helps you much either.
Sigh, Nofi, for everything I criticize about the US there are 10 things I appreciate, accept or even adore about your good country. Don't forget that I spent my adolescent years largely with Americans and enjoyed their company and outlook on life. That doesn't make me have to like Hanoi's Christmas bombing - not back then and not now.
Admittedly, your collective views about gun control aren't among what I like about your country either. You guys act as if the Connecticut incident was a car accident that cannot reasonably lead to cars and indicidual traffic being abolished on US roads. To me that is a perverse view.
No, there aren't easy answers to the gun issue, but you guys simply avoid formulating even the attempt of an answer (complex or simple) for fear of the alleged "political dimension" of it. And tell you what: The answer doesn't lie in the Second Amendment of your otherwise in many ways commendable Constitution either. I don't believe your much lauded fathers of the Constitution had mass assassinations of kids on a schoolyard as a by-prodict to be tolerated in mind when they adopted that Amendment. I also don't believe that the next revolution in the US will be won with guns - buy a large computer server if you want to be prepared.
Let's agree to disagree. You are free to continue pretending that the one has nothing to do with the other. Just spare me that crap with the media being to blame. To bring it down to your level of archaic argument: Neither newspapers, television, radio nor the internet killed those kids, bullets from a gun did. A gun that would have been much more difficult to obtain in many other parts of the world where by coincidence schoolyard shootings are more rare.
Uwe