To me seeing the Lanza and Holmes shootings as mind control is a way for gun manufacturers and ardent gun enthusiasts to distance themselves from the reality that we do have a culture with people who are mentally ill, have violence anger issues who have a great deal of access to pretty powerful weapons. In a way that meme is its own form of gun control. Just the phrase "guns don't kill, people do" has a double meaning, the major one being that guns themselves are not dangerous and do not have lethality. It is has created a mindset where people don't store guns from their small children, or in the case of Lanza [a] mother providing a child [with] social dysfunction [disorders] the means and training to [kill] 27 souls in less than 4 minutes.
If there were benefits from the shooting, it was not something that helped or would help "gun grabbers", but actually [it] helped to consolidate the conservative base. That has been the case with most of these shootings. It has not be a benefit for the left, the moderate, and those that see gun safety as something that is needed oddly preserve our liberties [rather than reduce it]. I say preserve out liberty, think about what it is like to go into a public place like an airport, court house, or major league sports stadium. Are we more free or less free?
This is my first post and I expect to be flamed, but having goodly number of friends and acquaintances die from guns, it is not so theoretical as a modern deconstructionist statement that "guns don't kill people." People will keep the ammonia and Clorox from the toddler, we need to do that same thing for the Lanzas, Holmes, and Rouths of this world in regard to guns. I mean if you have a child, keep the gun locked up. If you have family member who has mental problems, store the guns off site. If you know a person has PTSD, don't take them to the shooting range. But the big thing is not to blame stupidity on the part of Lanza's mom, Holmes' shrink, and Chris Kyle [take a mentally person to a shooting range] on mind control. There were people with mental problems first and foremost.
Understand, too, the arguments to support no gun control for the violent and mentally ill comes from the manufacturers and the people on 5th Avenue who said cigarettes don't cause cancer.