Originally Posted by retmil46

A thought comes to mind....

Instead of trying to figure out what's wrong with our society, where such events take place, and trying to figure out a solution based on that alone...

Perhaps look at a few other countries where guns are quite prevalent, but these types of incidents are seemingly rare or unheard of...

A recent thread or news article on Switzerland, where everyone must do X number of years compulsory service in the militia or military when they come of age - and during that time keep and maintain a military grade infantry rifle, in their personal possession...

Yet, unless the media is completely ignoring it, similar incidents in Switzerland are unheard of....

What are the differences between our country and Switzerland, such that they can have a high number of weapons floating about - not just handguns, sporting rifles, and shotguns, but military grade weapons - but yet remain seemingly free of such tragedies?

Originally Posted by MBlovr

This seems like a good starting point which would hopefully identify what's wrong with our society. We have certainly drifted in a pathological direction.

The way I look at it there always has been a distribution of mental stability in young males. If you either put additional pressure on that population or as some have pointed out normalize violence through video games, treat them with psychological drugs, more on the fringes will fall off the cliff. In terms of evidence of additional pressure I seem to recall that back when Columbine happened there was a significant downward trend in terms of percent of males graduating from college. Add to that making guns more accessible to this population and you have the deadly intersection that we have been witnessing.

Something is this stew needs to be reversed or we have no reason to think that things are going to get better.