Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
I'm waiting for the gun control rhetoric to start. Here again we have an obviously mentally ill individual with easy access to enough firepower to shoot 20 people in about a minute, killing 6.... Is that a problem? Inciting the crazies to violence isn't such a big deal if the most dangerous weapon they can easily get is a machete. Who knows, a background check, a waiting period, might have made a difference. Though based on this guy's note, he did say he planned well in advance. Still, I'm surprised there hasn't been any gun control commentary yet.
Schizophrenia tends to develop in the late teens and early 20s. What if this guy was perfectly fine when he was 18, passed all the necessary background checks, and became ill later? Do you want the government having mandatory mental health checks on people every year?