Originally Posted by AmeliaG

When someone does something crazy like that, it seems to me that a better and more productive dialogue would be about mental health care in the USA, not gun access. If we all walked around cowboy-style, a crazy person like that college prof would be stopped faster, but the more important issue is how to identify and help crazy people, while avoiding needless marginalizing. Are the antidepressants prescribed so liberally in America helping or hurting? How did a woman who murdered her brother get the opportunity to murder at least three more people twenty years later? Did she ever get any help and treatment? Those are the salient points, not what the weapon of choice was for her crazy ass.