Tragedy-How to act, and not act, and we saw both

As a person who spent 20 years in the military, I had quite a few friends who lost their lives while I served. So while I can't know exactly the families of those killed in Colorado Friday morning feel now, I do know a little of their sorrow, hurt, loss, and their general feeling of anger and confusion. And while my prayers, and heart are with all of those that lost friends and family, my thoughts on the day after are on the reactions, some good, some bad, and one horrible beyond belief.
To both President Obama and Mitt Romney, I think you did a wonderful job, and you stated your feelings, and those of many others, perfectly. Suspending your political stops while still going ahead with some functions and speaking of the tragedy. And stooping all political ads in Colorado for a while was the correct action to take. And Mayor Bloomberg of New York I thought hit a fair, if not great, note in his speech.
For the bad, I found the non-ending kids who were there being interviewed on national TV for hours on end to be way too much. I may be too old-fashioned, but it seemed like 18 hours after the fact, we'd get more actual reporting and less on-the-scene reactions. And watching The Dark Knight on TNT Friday night, I saw several political ads, mostly for the President. Wasn't there anything the White House could do to stop the ads?
But for the most horrible, most disgusting thing I heard so far, I didn't have to look or listen very long. And I should have known that it would come from a a Representative of Texas, Louie Gohmert (I hope I spelled his name right). While stating his per functional condolences, he asked how fewer people may have died if the kids in the theater had been carrying guns. Are you that stupid? Do you think that fewer kids may have died if some had been carrying guns? Don't you realize that if some people had been carrying guns, more bullets would have been in the air, and in all likelihood more would have died, not less? Are you that naive, that oblivious to facts, or does the NRA give you so much money that you're a shill for them?
The tragedy was action all in itself, and we've seen the good, bad, and the most horrible in Americans in some reactions to the tragedy. But we won't see any bills on gun control, will we?