Weren't you the one who told me you "lived in reality?"

We have successful government run healthcare programs for our seniors, vets and poor people. Strange is that I don't see any old people marching in the street and protesting their Medicare. I wonder why that is? Likewise my wife chooses VA over her HMO since it provides superior care. Furthermore this is not, as you portray it, a government takeover of healthcare. Not even close.

I would prefer we banned bad analogies first.

It just happened and the argument is that if people had been armed then a crisis could have been averted or made less severe. However the bad guy obtained the weapons legally, so can't we also conclude that we'd have a much lower chance of something like this happening with stricter gun laws?

Lax American guns laws surely didn't save lives in this case, or when Giffords was shot in Arizona (very pro gun state) either. The default answer always seems to be "If everybody had guns then..."  Why not simply explore the other side and say "If everybody did NOT have guns then...."

Right, even more reason to have stricter gun controls in the USA as we are much different than other countries. We're obviously producing more crazies and thus a higher probability of one of them doing shit like this. The more difficult it is to obtain a weapon, then less opportunity these losers have.