Will this story get minimized because the murderer was ex police, whom we are scolded are the only people that society can trust with a gun, or will it get played up because it can be used to imply that veterans are dangerous when the military is done using them as mercenaries to raid villages, kill women and children in the dark of night, like Genghis Khan?
Neither. He will be played as a crazy who shouldn't have been allowed to own a weapon, thus justifying an administrative power to decide who is crazy. We just can't leave deprivation of rights up to a court you know... too expensive.