If the influence were universal and consistent, pretty much everyone I know would be waiting to be beamed back up to the Enterprise or building stills in their tents. Instead, only a fraction of my friends are doing that. Presumably there is something that shouldn't be allowed on television. The Hayes code which governed Hollywood wasn't tyranny. It may have been overkill, but if it were provable that the overkill in Littleton is the alternative, we would have some decisions to make.
Gun control has virtually no positive effect on crime control.
If these little barbarians in Littleton didn't have guns, they wouldn't have killed people. Answers are hard to come by. Regulations which fall short of violating this constitutional principle are for the most part meaningless. President Clinton's new post-Littleton crime bill calls for child safety locks. These kids were running a gun shop in the garage.