Well, here's the problem, do you want to go back to the days where people with autism and "mental retardation" are institutionalized and forgotten about or do you want to continually err on the side of caution and give everyone and their brother a 27th chance to succeed and down play obvious mental illness issues? The US doesn't seem interested in finding any middle ground between those two outcomes when it comes to mental health treatment.
No I get that there's a huge issue with how mental illness is treated in this country (although my sister is a nurse and has worked for group homes in CT, the people there are not left drooling in their straightjackets, the state is paying for them to live in nice houses with good staff/patient ratio and they're taken to school or jobs depending on their age and even given money for shopping trips and movies and such, it's not always the "Frances" type of insane asylum when someone is under state care) but anyway I would just like to know more of the background for the shooters than is normally reported on just to see if perhaps there is something that could have been done that maybe someone else will see and recognize that a loved one is exhibiting those same signs and see what might have been able to be done to prevent them from going down the same road. Pollyannish probably, I just like to think the more we learn the more we might be able to prevent this from happening again and again
