We all share America's pain, grief and horror at this attack, but it is an old, familiar pain felt far too many times already.
Average battlefield kill ratios do not apply when a terrorist nut job is shooting drunk party goers who are packed together like sardines.
It's simply makes no sense to suggest even a total firearms novice would need 10-20 shots to kill one person under such conditions.
Shooting fish in a barrel would have literally been harder.
It could not surprise me at all if single bullets killed multiple victims.
I am a firearms lover, and could own a sizeable personal armoury if UK law permitted it. But as much as I chaff at those restrictions, I know it's simply no contest when comparing my desire and enjoyment from owning and shooting firearms to someone's life.
The awful, undeniable truth is that guns kill people. They allow the weak to kill the strong and the few to kill the many.
There will always been crazy and/or evil people who wish to harm others, no society can ever totally guard against that, but the availability of guns fundamentally changes the harm such people can wreck before they are stopped.
It is simply astonishing that in the very same week as the tragedy at Sandy Cook, a disturbed nut case walked into a primary school in China looking to do the same thing or worse, but no children were killed because he could only get ahold of knives and cleavers.
Such a perfect illustration of the impact of easy gun access is almost enough to make an atheist believe in a touch of the divine in its timing, and yet the entire mainstream US media gave it at best a passing mention and moved on with indecent haste with near religious dutifulness.
This is a tired old argument that has been repeate so so many times, and heartbreakingly, is destined to be repeated again and again with more innocent lives brutally cut short each time so long as America continue to refuse to deal with its gun problem.
So the question is, just how much is too much? How many more innocent people have to die before Americans decide that the price, in spilled innocent blood, for their gun culture is too high?