Something has really been bothering me.
First, the two major things Newtown, Aurora, Columbine, and other mass shootings have in common are (1) weapons/guns and (2) mentally ill. It's not the isolation of one or other, but the combination.
What bugs me is that we, as a society, are trained to recognize symptoms of stroke, heart attacks, and other medical conditions, but most of us are either ignorant or ignore mental illness symptoms.
I, like many on this forum, read the "wrong" RL twitter feed yesterday. Even though this is the wrong person, that feed was deeply disturbing - the sort of things that, in the context of thinking about crime, one can read in "hindsight" and say "all of the signs were there."
Maybe all of us accidentally noticing that RL's twitter will alert someone to symptoms proactively. He may be a perfectly fine kid, but it's time people start paying more attention to those sorts of statements - I know I will.
