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Originally Posted by Burninator

I asked this earlier in the thread. But what are you suppose to do? Of course in retrospect the signs are as clear as day. But lots of people are troubled or write about dark things. You obviously can't lock these people up or send them to an asylum. They have to show signs that they will commit acts of violence either on themselves or others, or commit a crime/violent act. Only then can you make them go to jail, counselling, take medication etc. But you can't do that to someone who writes about disturbing factious events or listens to angry music. Even idol threats are a sketchy area too.

Stephen King wrote a short novel called Rage about a student walking into his school and shooting people. Now the circumstances are not the same as this one, but you can't make Stephen King go see a psychologist.

Now where that line is of someone being disturbed to cause concern but is harmless and a disturbed someone causing harm, I don't know. I am just trying to make the point that if everyone who acts similar to this case I bet the lines to psychologists offices would be out the door. I think cases like this are so isolated that they are almost unavoidable.

Exactly. The idea of Thought Police is, to me, more scary than incidents like this.

Jack Thompson was on Foxnews blaming video games even before the shooters name was released (link). It seems very wrong to me more for anyone to use this tragedy to make political points mere hours after the actual event.