I remember years ago a senior police officer on the Algarve, announcing on television,that he really thought that the Portuguese people didn't care how many were killed on the roads leading to the holiday destinations of the South... they just want't to get there.

Whilst this may be more applicable to Thailand and the annual massacres at Songkran and the New Year I do feel that Americans have become numbed to these events and, as long as it is not in their community, just put it to one side.

Getting your family housed, fed and educated becomes your topmost priority. Deaths by shooting are what happens to other people.... Until it is one of yours. By then it is too late.