Rarely do I say what I really think.
But, just so you know:
I hope to believe that they are just cowards.
To think that this situation was allowed to further the cause of gun control is grotesque, though not unimaginable in this manufactured culture.
Allowed to happen: Media, law enforcement, government, complicit in shaping public opinion. IMHO.
It doesn't matter what you believe, what matters is that we are being played.
Art from the magic of the internet.