Excellent post. In this case, according to this article, he was recently cleared by mental health experts. We have to figure out a better way on how to deal with this. There definitely needs to be more followup. Cops Determined Marine Veteran Wasn’t a Danger Before Thousand Oaks, California, Shooting Ian David Long, 28, cleared a mental-health check by police months before he opened fire on a bar packed with college students, killing 12 people. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ian-long-identified-as-thousand-oaks-california-shooting-gunman
interesting...didn't read the article but I wonder if he cleared such a check and was on (or just recently taken off) SSRI meds.
Good solutions to all these problems are known, solutions that do not in any unreasonable way infringe on anyone's constitutional rights.
The only thing that makes any sense about this is... "I'm in pain, nobody listens to me, so I'll kill some people and then someone will listen to me." Are these killings a cry for help ? I don't understand it. I don't think we had these mass shootings after WW2, Korea, Vietnam... Not like this. Senseless and bewildering. I seem to remember reading about the occasional Vietnam vet coming home and killing their nagging spouse but I don't recall reading or hearing about shooting a dozen victims. What is the psychological need fulfilled in murdering civilians ?
More proof that handguns and "assualt weapons" need to be banned. If you can't defend your house with shotguns and rifles, tough shit, you're a paranoid asshole then. Or a gun nut, same thing.
It’s about punishing the innocent. I think it’s just that simple. And complicated. But the anti psychotic drugs is what pushes these people over the edge.