Quick point about the latest shooting

Hey, guess what! Some crazy man uses a automatic rifle to kill innocent people in America!

I really hope we're actually not getting used to this, where it's like you take an umbrella because it may rain and you update your will because your co-workers are getting crazier. From the preliminary information (which follows the same pattern: "we have no idea he would do this" to "he kept shooting things and had untreated mental problems") this sounds like a weird twist on a workplace "postal" massacre. But I have to say, I don't see a good way forward on how to get the guns outa the hands of lunatics. Mainly because any lawmaker, or citizen, who tries to go after the gun lobby is likely to be shot dead by the selfsame lunatics. It's depressing.