Meshugger, about that posting one or two pages ago:
Sorry! I didn't mean to say you're wrong. I used your posting to show what false conclusions people like to draw of cooccurrent facts.
I agree with that. It's not necessary, or rather: not sufficient, to educate people how to use guns responsibly, but much better to show and teach the population how using violence is not a way of solving problems, but a way to create graver ones.
And about your older post:
I'd agree to some point - one starts to try to be completetly different, even disgusting for the kind of people one doesn't like, if people treat you as different, ugly, stupid, lower or whatever. Probably that radical denial is some form of the famous "cry for help" often cited to be overheard before a suicide. I don't really think institutional mental health-care would help in such cases, because this would only aggravate the problem by rubbing in your face that you're out of the norm, and mentally unstable, even insane. The best thing that can happen to a person who isn't included in the norm is - in my experience - someone who accepts them the way they are, always, even if they change (which they will, if they're accepted). So, again I agree with those who take the parents into responsibility, because these should ideally fit such a role (but the usually don't do that, trying to educate their children to their own ideals). Probably a true love would solve this, however supidly romatic that must read now.
Some small thing on the discussion about guns: It's not fair to say, if he had had no gun, he'd have used a truck or a kitchen-knife. Why? A gun was built to be a killing instrument.