VATech shooting

[elcorazon]

1.  the kid was crazy and needed more help.
2.  guns are too easily accessible.  I analogize it to the whole wmd issue.  we went to war on suspicion that someone who we viewed as a bad actor might have wmd.  yet we don't have many restraints on our own people obtaining weapons that are not as serious, but still can create quite a tragedy relatively easily...
3. i can't really blame society at large.  all societies have outsiders and loners and people who don't fit in, or fell that they don't - yet, most of them don't go out and kill indiscriminately - if anything, we do need to improve our mental health system and try to take away some of the stigma to make people more comfortable dealing with these issues.  it's very complex though, and I'm not sure we should be creating policies out of this kind of oddball, yet tragic event.

[elcorazon]

Option 1 - and people like him shouldnt be allowed to have guns - and screw patient confidentiality w/ stuff like that.

you're treading on thin ice with that argument.

who exactly are "people like him"?  And how do we decide that?  And how to we know that patient confidentiality can be screwed?  And who do you trust to make those decisions?

I think we should really take politics out of this stuff.  I am not a proponent of gun rights, but I honestly don't think my belief in gun control is impacted one way or the other by this kind of unusual tragedy.