The Obama administration's push is for further mental health screening. But many of these mass shooters were seeing psychiatric care and still not identified as showing a "sign of any likely violence either to himself or others." That was again the case with Ivan Lopez. The Washington Post reports:
But the Army psychiatrist who last saw Lopez found no “sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others,” McHugh told a Senate panel. . . .Monday morning quarterbacking is so easy. What may have been relatively trivial events gain so much more meaning after an attack has occurred.
A person undergoing psychiatric care may display no signs of impending violence one day and ram a car into a crowd of pedestrians the next.
ReplyDeleteAnd a person may be a picture of apparently perfect mental health one day and put her kids in the back seat and deliberately drive into a reservoir the next.
And....that's why we have to set some "common sense" controls over the possession of automobiles.