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Agreed. Excellent strategy. Not only involving himself in the op (and screwing it up) but giving him a chance to steal the energy from their effort. Q-tip: continue to shift the narrative from gun control ("gun safety" in the new narrative) to mental health screening. Extra points: Push having mental health screenings done by military as a part of graduation requirements. Q-tip 2: mandate annual criminal background and mental health screens of ALL public school faculty and staff. AnalystAnon says push the onus on schools for identifying at-risk students, point out the terrible way boys are raised in public schools these days. "It doesn't matter how many laws are passed, if the mechanism that identifies at-risk boys and find them the treatment that they need, before they can go down this tragic road. What we have here isn't a failure of gun laws; it's a failure of our educational system to ensure these mentally ill boys don't find themselves feeling they have no better choice than to die famous, in a blaze of bloody terror."
Also, if the youth or gender of the shooter become a focus, in return we focus on the fact that thousands of American "teenagers" carry automatic firearms on a daily basis without trouble – in the service and uniform of their country. If every High School junior was allowed to be given a mental health evaluation as part of a pre-Selective Service program, that would likely discover and identify these potential killers long before they can acquire a firearm.