WAIT, THEN THERE’D BE NO POLITICAL HAY TO BE MADE: Ron Fournier: What If Nothing or Nobody is to Blame for Adam Lanza?

Besides, the press is always happy to blame the NRA. Doing so unfairly just makes it more satisfying.

But Fournier, Megan McArdle, and even Ezra Klein are wrestling with the strong likelihood that there’s no policy response that will make such events less likely.

Though having more armed people around — instead of waiting 20 minutes for the cops to show up — would make such events much less destructive.