Again....But it's never the guns!

[Annik]

I wish everyone would be as passionate about mental health issues after tragedies like this as they are about guns. I think society as a whole loses out when we focus on one issue as if it were the only cause.

A three-pronged approach would be best. Improving access and quality of mental health care, psych evaluations and gun safety classes required to purchase a gun and lessening the media attention of the perpetrator of these heinous crimes. Better health care means (in theory, our paperwork keeping skills need to improve) keeping track of those who present dangers to themselves or those around them. Evaluations and safety classes will cut down on gun accidents and perhaps spree killing. Decreasing the media attention would help cut back on copycat events and maybe stop the spree killings from getting worse (the trend is: kill count goes up and the victims/location becomes more shocking). Of course, the decrease in violence will be noted, but it won't disappear. Illegal gun trade is alive and thriving in the US.