Mental health , all the media coverage it gives these types of individuals , and a lack of good parenting and morals coming up in the younger generation. Do I think those type of guns should be banned ? Heck no as that does nothing to solve the problem . Should you have a psych evaluation before buying an automatic weapon ? Probably. The bigger flaw here is the fact that this kid had warning signs all over the place, the YouTube comments etc that were reported to fbi and nothing was done. The kid clearly had mental issues and nothing was ever done to address it , both his foster parents had died, he was probably always seen as an outcast and I hate to say conditioned to do something like this because the mental health issues never resolved and nothing done to follow up on all the threats.
Look as I kid I played all the shoot em up games, call of duty , gta etc . Did I ever think of something crazy like shooting up a school ? Hell no , I was raised right , in a loving household where you are clearly taught right and wrong. This kid new it was wrong too don’t get me wrong however he had serious psych issues that were never addressed even with all the warning signs. Guns don’t kill people , people kill people . Bad people, outcasts , pscholgical issues etc. You could ban auto weapons or guns etc and the evil people will still find there way to getting there hands on them or other weapons to cause damage however I do think the evaluation for a purchase of something like that should be looked into. I mean cops were called to his home 30 something times , he had horrible YouTube posts saying he would be a professional school killer and could do better and yet was still able to legally buy the gun.
That’s where the flaw is. Not the gun , but the lack of oversight into all these red flags and mental health issues.
