All I can say is that as a lawyer I encounter issues with people having mental health problems regularly. With an adult, unless they are actively harming themselves or others or threatening do to do, you can't force treatment.
The reality is stark. Just having an "off" kid or even one with continuous, anti-social behavior enables you to get nothing with regard to involuntary services. And voluntary services are super expensive, typically.
Most people could not fathom that their child with "issues" could be able to do something like this or a mass shooting because they typically don't voice their insane fantasies.
This stuff simply isn't always preventable no matter how much we want that to be true.
Great post.
May I add: we do not know, and I keep emphasizing it, what - if any - alarming “issues” JP may have had or shown, NOR do we know how his parents dealt with them, or whether they successfully or unsuccessfully sought help.
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