What Can We as a Community Do to Try and Prevent Another Shooting Massacre?

Published November 10, 2012

Question by Matt S: What can we as a community do to try and prevent another shooting massacre?
Are there any fundamental changes we can make in our society to keep another depressed and suicidal “maniac” from doing this again? Was there anything we could have done to keep the Virginia Tech shooter from doing this?

I feel like we had gotten all the warning signs that this guy was severely depressed or even psychotic and was more than capable of committing these acts of atrocity, but most people seemed too perturbed by his strange behavior over the years to want to help him.

Do we need better mental health intervention programs in our country? Or could it be as simple as loosening our gun laws, allowing more innocent people to be able to defend themselves in situations like this? Maybe we should look to some European cultures for more perspective like this…places like Norway (albeit a socialist country) have an incredibly low crime rate.

Your thoughts, please.

Best answer:

Answer by Roswelldreamer
You can do whatever you want to try to stop but you never can. The more compact you make our society, the more people are going to break out and want attention. They are crazy and need mental help. But you don’t know when somebody is going to eventually explode like he did. There will always be another one, remember that.

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