If tyrants were planning an op to push the disarming agenda

"Newtown parents... living in the NE, chances are the vast majority of them were already on the anti-gun wagon...."

Yes, and if tyrants were planning an op to push the disarming agenda, they would program their psycho boy to hit just that profile. If there were such fiendish plotters. If they were that canny. Then they'd have a whole passel of propaganda props.

Rule: never let a crisis go to waste.
Corollary: if no crisis is available, stage one.