Since I’m already going to hell, let me be the first to say it: I’m sick of the coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting.

There. I said it.

My sympathy is with the victims, don’t get me wrong. But don’t expect to turn the news on and expect actual news for several days as the news media attaches itself to this story and competes for the most speculation-ridden, emotional coverage.

Currently on the cable news networks: MSNBC – Were the guns legal purchases?; CNN – Kiran Chetry on campus, What do we know about the weapons?; Headline News – All about the guns, the criminal weapon of choice; Fox News – Shepard Smith on campus, Survivors’ stories.

The president has spoken. The congress has rescheduled important hearings. The talk radio circuit will be unlistenable today. But for every other working American, it is Tuesday. We will all go to work, complete our jobs, go home, eat dinner, and go to bed. In the grand scheme of things, this story only truly effects those who are directly involved.

OK, we get it. It is a big story. Now let us please move on.

But no, we’re going to have this crammed down our collective throats for the next week, all under the headline of “breaking news.”

We’re going to see anti-gun stories. We’re going to see stories about poor security and poor response plans. We’re going to see an endless parade of victims. We’re going to see non-stop press conferences where nothing new is revealed, and on the rare occasion that new information comes to light it will be breaking news all over again. We’re going to hear about proposed legislation at the local, state, and federal levels that will likely not be enforced or enforceable, and only serves to restrict the rights of law abiding citizens and not the crazy nuts who are going to break the law anyway.

Currently on MSNBC – Commercials (gotta profit from tragedy, right?), but with a scroller giving us non-breaking breaking news; CNN – Kiran Chetry, talking with more victims with a non-breaking breaking news banner; Headline News – cancellation of athletic events, more non-breaking breaking news with the dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks Robin Meade; Fox News – Virginia Tech president talking with Geraldo from yesterday, more non-breaking breaking news.

Let’s move on. Please, let’s move on.