In Spain is very full covered in newspapers, programs, radio, online media and television. And the people is very sad and angry about the idea and talk about that a lot.
Most of the people thinks that guns should be forbidden as it is here. It helps a lot.
Here you cannot go to the street even with a knife in the pocket, only if it has less than a few centimeters (less than the distance to the heart if you stab somebody in the chest), or only for very plain purposes like submarining or hunting in the countryside.
The thing of "it is not the weapon it is the man" is false. Probably settled in the american washed brains by the weapon industry. Money > People.
If the guy get to the school with two big knifes instead of two guns probably not so many kids were dead, they could escape.
If the problem is not the weapon why not selling uber big bombs? As Cmp said in a post before , a post that I wwas going to write: That guy could have taken the mini-nuclear rocket that his grand father has in his panic room for self defense purposes and use it in the school. Then it could die like hundreds.
It is all about money. The lobby of the weapon industry wash your brains in all levels and everywhere (advertisin, tv programs, radio, media, films, child cartoons...) and fill the pockets of local and big governemts and so and so ....
Also it helps the violent past of North America, but believe me, it was not wors than other countries in the recent past. So Personally, and lot of epople that i know thinks the same:
It is just the culture, Money > People , And the shit word Freedom used like a whore for preserve the basic purpose of making money.