Over the years I have watched anti-gun legislation carefully. One thing I have noticed, before an important vote, whether national or in key states, there was almost always a high profile shooting tragedy. For example, the Luby's Cafeteria incident just before the magazine ban vote.
It got to a point where I would put the date of a vote on the calendar and say to my family, "They are voting on this date, how much you want to bet there will be a bad shooting in this week prior." And I would get no takers.
Strange--we haven't had a "school shooting" incident in quite some time, but now this.
Oh, the New Orleans thing, turned out not to be an AK47, but an SKS. As I told some of my uninformed friends... no, an SKS is not an "assault weapon". That the SKS is what the Comblock gave to troops they considered "cannon fodder." With its 10 round fixed mag, it does not meet the generic definition of "assault weapon."