Columbine Shooting Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of the Columbine shootings in which 13 people were killed and 24 injured. Since then we've had the shootings at Virginia Tech in which 32 students and teachers were killed and earlier this month we had the shootings at the Binghamton, N.Y. immigration center in which 13 were killed and four were injured.
In the wake of the Columbine shootings, there was a lot of searching for answers. There were anti-bullying campaigns and calls for better security and there was hope that maybe this would lead to better gun control.
Well, it turns out that none of it went very far. I think the anti-bullying campaigns are terrific, mind you, and they may prevent other types of violence and suicide among young people. But it turns out that the two shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, weren't bullied. Slate Magazine's Dave Cullen, who wrote a new book "Columbine," says that the two boys weren't bullied. He says that Harris that was a true psychopath while Klebold was the follower. Their motivation was to kill as many people as possible.
Cullen says that there is no profile of school shooters. They're not necessarily the bullied loners.
In another piece Cullen says that we have increased school security and learned to respond better to these incidents. We've learned that there is no classic profile. We've also learned that these kids often give hints about what they're planning in advance.http://www.slate.com/id/2216122/.
But all this seems like small potatoes compared to the gun issue. There's been very little progress on banning automatic weapons. Now President Obama has backed off promises to ban assault weapons and his administration is indefinitely postponing even making an effort because of the powerful NRA.
We are a very, very stupid country when it comes to guns. When are we going to take the steps necessary so that kids can't get hold of guns and certainly can't get hold of guns that fire round after round of bullets within minutes, killing innocent people.
It is maddening that with all the talk of the Columbine Anniversary there is so little talk about taking real steps to take the weapons out of the hands of psychopaths.

But all this seems like small potatoes compared to the gun issue.