I would surmise that the reason these stories don't get coverage is the same reason near accidents don't. A sixteen-car pileup after a truck spills its load is news. Slamming on the brakes and swerving to avoid the brain-dead teen texting and stepping off the curb in front of you really isn't. And driving to work uneventfully surely is nothing worth reporting.

Put another way, a deeply-disturbed individual went into a movie house and used firearms to change hundreds of lives, most of them forever, at least in one way or another.

Untold millions of firearms owners did not shoot anyone, in a movie house or otherwise. And only a few displayed or used a firearm to stop or prevent a crime. The reason for non-reporting may be that simple, that it's just not considered "newsworthy."

After all, they have to get back to reporting important things, like which celeb slept with which other or got kicked off dancing/singing/doing makeup/baking/etc. with the stars.