I agree with all that. And I'd add that once folk stop regrading the media as 'public opinion' (for that is how 'outrage' is measured) we can get a clearer perspective. Unfortunately we still have government by headlines. I don't buy newspapers, well, The Observer sometimes, but I feel that is...
I think it's more a case of how we measure public outrage. Apart from a few resident nutters in the UK, everyone would be upset about it. I guess the realisation would be that there is little we can do about it, being that it happened in another country.
As much as I am unsure about government impositions of observations and protocols on the population, I am more than wanting to pay respects to these poor souls. RIP.