Empathy and sympathy my ass. The only people who are really affected by this are the relatives of the victims. Everybody else is just paying lip service because that's the social convention.
By Monday it will have been mostly forgotten and media's attention will be back on the fiscal cliff drama and people's attention back on celebrating Christmas.
Some will, some won't, but some of the people not directly involved will still take the time to REACH OUT and HELP those who have been harmed by this tragedy. Not everyone is as cynical as you make them out to be.
Then in a few months we will have another one of these (while meanwhile there will have been about a dozen shootings that only leave a small number of dead and as a result are only mentioned in passing). And there will be another edition of the same news cycle. Rinse and repeat.
You can have the last word because I'm not trying to go back and forth with you. Children have been killed, I don't want to argue with you and try to reason with you as you are beyond such things. So go ahead, make yourself superior, stand on your soapbox and typical eugenics platform, make me out to be the bad guy and get it all off your chest.