The authoritarian statists will use any excuse, any opportunity to grasp more power and truncate liberty

It's who they are, it's what they live for.  Imagine a world run by self righteous blue stockings and you're in our 'progressive paradise'.

THE WHOLE POINT OF A TRAGEDY IS THAT IT OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CRACK DOWN ON TROUBLESOME MINORITIES:Sandy Hook Commission Calls For Government Crackdown On Homeschools. “The onerous new rules for homeschooling families somehow make sense in the minds of commission members because Adam Lanza massacred 20 young children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. in December 2012 — when he was 20 years old.”

Unfortunately these proto fascists are experts at the artful non-sequitur.