LAST EDITED ON 12-17-12 AT 03:25 PM (EST)Rupert Murdoch's tweet Friday night may or may not have been sending a message to his minions at Fox News, as some speculated -- honestly, he wants to tell anyone at Fox News anything at all he only has to pick up the Batphone and yell as much as he wants. Any elected official reading it, though, would clearly get the message: It's your responsibility, do something about it.
Anyway, I don't know whether he confused fully automatic and semi-automatic weapons or meant to say assault weapons, but clearly we have a problem when semi-automatic weapons are just not that much different from automatic weapons. It's not the whole problem, unfortunately, and addressing these issues means having everything else explored as well.
This time the weapon used was one of convenience rather than of preference, for example.
And what can be done on the federal level? Most gun laws exist on the state and local level.