Media report on shootings but miss many gun-related stories

BY WILLIAM A. BABCOCK / According to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, the three stories constituting news for that paper’s “The Nation” section on pages A 10 and 11 were all shooting related. This is not to say these three stories were neither of national importance, nor that they failed to constitute the most significant news of the day. What seems odd, though, is in the midst of so much well-documented news of horrific shootings across the United States, the media carry so few gun-related items