... and as I note are becoming desensitized when faced with them all, where they focus on the big ones like Sandy Hook or Roseburg, and the others get almost ignored, where in other countries where they don't have near the same amount of violence that we do, other incidents that get ignored would be talked about a lot and dealt with more instead of forgotten the next day.
I think this is why cops feel that they can get away with so much here too. Because they think we're desensitized to all of these different reports, and don't really have time in our lives to think about them constantly. It isn't until many start having the video of the details of that violence being shown on the news and social media that really puts in front of us what really happens with them that has made it more of an issue recently.
I think one should look at Australia's gun buyback program and other efforts there to stop their earlier violence when they had more weapons at large like we do now and how it has significantly reduced violence there. We should be looking at borrowing what they did or some variant of it to help us stop this now.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/02/did-gun-control-work-in-australia/
Now, I'd also like to see us borrow instant runoff voting and mandatory voting processes that they put in place to there, but that's another question for another thread! 
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