The morning after and I'm asking why. Why can be a question in a lot of situations. Why did yesterday happen? More personally, I am asking myself why I really want a career in politics. The response of the media and political actors to yesterday's tragedy disgusts me. America has become the "Do Something, Do Anything" Nation when it comes to dealing with problems. As George W. Bush says, "We have a responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move." We as a nation are convinced that if something goes wrong, our government has to step in and do something.

And so the Brady Campaign calls for gun control. And the media, which doesn't see it as important to report incidents where guns protect people, is already providing details as to how this was made possible by a lack of federal gun control laws. The New York Times also jumps on the gun control bandwagon.

To fully analyze the situation, I think that Brad Spangler and Micha Gertner have the best summaries. Micha in particular makes this observation:

So, here, with state gun laws, we have a legal regime in which it’s fairly easy to acquire guns, but nearly impossible to properly defend oneself outside the home unless one is willing to violate the law and carry on, say, a college campus. And then we wonder why tragedies like this happen in a society filled with well-armed law violators and unarmed law abiders.