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Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway
The kid had mental issues - medicated or not. The failure rests with the medical system not the guns he shot.
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Doctors and medicines cannot cure everyone. Mental illness is particularly difficult to treat, the conditions and their mechanisms are not well understood. Given our current state of medical knowledge, you have to assume that a large percentage of people with mental illnesses will not be successfully treated. Even when the "medical system" does everything "right".
It also isn't clear yet if he was indeed diagnosed or treated for mental illness, or if it rose to a level that should have prevented him from having guns.
Even if it did, the current gun control system does not do a particularly good job of preventing gun purchases by persons with mental illness, or with criminal history for that matter. That's been repeatedly demonstrated. Every couple of months, in fact.