The problem is that a child getting killed by lightning doesn't leave behind a community of survivors and loved ones who go on a crusade against lightning. School shootings lead to political activism, and that activism has been met with a stone wall for decades. Hardly an inch has been given, and the school shootings continue.

They're now finding creative ways around the wall that was constructed, to do something -- anything -- and again it's treated as a big, unnecessary inconvenience. The longer people stand in the way of reasonable reform, the more creative (read: unreasonable) the proposed reforms will become.