By now most of the developed world has heard of the shooting at a Century 16 theater outside Denver in Aurora, Colorado after midnight on July 20 where many innocent people were gunned down as if they were defenseless sheep.

For details of this tragedy, I suggest reading Mass Shooting at Colorado Movie Theater, 12 People Dead; Witnesses: Chaos and confusion inside the Denver movie massacre, and “The suspected ‘lone-wolf’ shooter of the Batman movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo. earlier today has been identified as Ph.D. student James Holmes …”

If you already know the details, skip the previous links and read on. In recent years, there has been an epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. News radio, 620 WTMJ reported on fourteen incidents since 1991 where, including the tragedy July 20, one-hundred-fifty-eight have been killed and one-hundred-seventy-four wounded.

In addition, according to…