Actually I think this nails it. I think a lot of people are mad about what they can imagine happening, or what their knee-jerk reaction was, before they understood the facts. But obviously there's nothing anybody can do about what people are imagining.

I completely agree with you. Nobody with any sense likes the circumstances of this case. Everybody should be asking exactly those questions about how a young kid found himself in a situation like that with a semi-automatic rifle. But all the outrage based on imagination is actually getting in the way of that.