Whether it's killing people in church, or James Holmes shooting up folks in a Colorado movie theater, or a sniper from a Las Vegas hotel window, or a Colorado high school mass shooting, or a gang shooting in a Chicago hood, the killers are all people who are losers. They have no self worth, no morals and don't care a whit for the sanctity of life. Obeying the laws of civilization, including those related to gun ownership or against wife and child beating, mean no more to them than traffic violations. And without exception, they always blame others for their own failures. They know they will never be famous, but also they see that mass murder will make them infamous, and remembered, if they take killing to the next level. In their twisted minds, it's their only shot at their "15 minutes of fame". Gun laws won't change them any more than making alcohol illegal changed people in prohibition. There are only two ways to change such twisted minds, with the first being impossible and the second being highly improbable. The first would require a total censorship prohibiting all reporting of these senseless acts, and the second would be a change in society that returns us to a level of morality not known since the 1950's and prior to anything goes liberalism.