Seeking something to blame for the shocking on-air pistol slaying of a Virginia TV reporter and her cameraman, Democrats and the media are fingering the National Rifle Association and the one-third of all Americans who own guns as the culprits.

Several news outlets Thursday editorialized on the hope the killings would revive a national push for gun control, though some conceded that the type of anti-gun initiatives called for even by Virginia’s Democratic governor wouldn’t have stopped the Wednesday morning killings.