"I asked to go into Patton State Hospital, okay? I asked the doctor I saw when I went and saw him for the medication and he said 'I don't even think you're dangerous.' Now, if I'm denied help am I fully to blame for my actions? Hell yeah, but could it have been prevented? Yeah, it could have been," Gardner said."
This the best part of the article. Is he to blame? Absolutely yes he is. Could something else have been done to prevent it......probably. I think this goes back to the recurring problem that this sort of behavior is so far outside the norm that NO ONE thinks it will really happen with someone they are dealing with. Most of the time they are right. The VA Tech shooter said a bunch of scary things. Everyone knew there was something wrong with him. No one thought he would go on a mass killing spree. I can recall a couple people I went to school with that seemed a little off and said some scary things. They never followed through. How do you determine who is really likely to lose it?
This the best part of the article. Is he to blame? Absolutely yes he is. Could something else have been done to prevent it......probably. I think this goes back to the recurring problem that this sort of behavior is so far outside the norm that NO ONE thinks it will really happen with someone they are dealing with. Most of the time they are right. The VA Tech shooter said a bunch of scary things. Everyone knew there was something wrong with him. No one thought he would go on a mass killing spree. I can recall a couple people I went to school with that seemed a little off and said some scary things. They never followed through. How do you determine who is really likely to lose it?