Driving in the car with my brother to visit for Father's Day this theme was brought up. My brother had read through some odd articles stating in the vaguest sense (or maybe it was the info filtered though his interpretation) that reform was Mateen's goal the whole time. As if to 'expose the flaw in the system'. My brother thought it was stupid. Cognitively invoking tragedy with the intent of gun reform? It's by nature the root of why the left wants gun reform, to prevent this exactly. Bare with me here, but the thing that came to mind for me was PsychoPass of all things - yes, anime. The intent of the villains to enact change through violent expositions of flaws... even though not too much changed afterward. I guess I'm 'squirreling' a bit here. But, yeah, I can see (unfortunately) how this is evident.The shitty thing about the gun debate is any real change is going to involve real change.