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This lunatic’s mother when called knew immediately that her son was the shooter. It begs the question how many other people knew that this man was dangerous. Friends, teachers, neighbors, fellow students etc. Fully understand that the police cannot visit and question a person just because someone says he is crazy, but if someone reports that a person is acting crazy and is accumulating guns, ammo and assault gear, then the police would have paid at least a visit. Even if everything he accumulated was within the law, a visit by a police officer may have given him pause and may have changed history. Then again maybe nothing would have been changed. However if I had a neighbor with mental health problems and the guy suddenly began accumulating weapons,and his behavior was known to someone, certainly would hold that someone partially responsible if no actions were taken.

When you have somebody out there on a tear it's really difficult to get the cops interested ~ they can't just go grab someone off the street for you.

However, there is one exception ~ just tell them "so and so is headed for the White House and we don't know what will happen".

Usually you'll get them back without bail provided you promise to take them to the nearest mental health outpatient clinic in the morning.

I"ve seen this done.

Now, if you don't have a White House around that could be a problem.

I know from personal experience with a co-worker that they can be reported by the family, diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses & be returned to the workplace or school on heavy doses of prescribed medication. The current culture in the mental health professions is to reintegrate very ill people into work and school, on the theory that it helps them “heal.”

The doctors will tell you that the best predictor of future violence is past violence. That’s their excuse for doing nothing except prescribing massive doses of drugs with serious side effects. With AZ, VA Tech, and now CO - people knew the person was unstable. There was no dry run. They all went from no attacks to mass murder.

I saw Dr. Keith Ablow give a great interview on O’Reilly. He said that he
will commit people, but many doctors won’t. Even then, I question how long they would remain committed. The perceived answer is the drugs, but who’s to say they don’t cause individuals to become violent.