In all the talk about mental illness,

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2. It is easy to say "anybody doing this must be crazy"

But in fact, Lanza was at the school the day before the shooting and apparently had some kind of altercation. He presumably was seen in this confrontation by education professionals. And evidently none of them saw anything that caused them to call the police and report the guy as a danger.

Maybe they didn't want to get involved.

Maybe the guy was acting "normal enough" that they felt they had no basis for action.

Maybe the law is such that you just can't report somebody for seeming a little crazy.

Maybe the reality is that the town had no resources to deal with such a case anyway.

The point is that it is easy to look back and say "Oh if we had only ..." But we all deal with people every day who aren't quite right, and 99.999% of them are never going to do anything like this.

I am not against increasing resources for mental health. But we have a gun violence problem. We need to deal with the 300 million guns that are floating out there, especially these assault type weapons that nobody has any business with.