You've seen it at work before. You've been a participant too. It always begins the same way, with that sense of fear when you see the news on TV, or hear it on the car radio, or read it in the paper, forced to acknowledge, again, the evil in the world. It's a liturgy, repeated, in rhythm. First come the facts, then mourning.
Politicos sometimes use the bodies as props.
Sometimes the agenda is gun control. Or perhaps a concealed-carry law. The dead don't care. Later come the stories of blame. Perhaps we're in that phase now.