Originally Posted by Rochard

I know NOTHING about autism.

My point is this kid - this twenty year old or whatever he was - had MULTIPLE issues. I don't think the autism was an issue here, but chances are he was on medication for that, and that's a warning sign. Might not be a problem at all.

His brother said the shooter had a ?personality disorder? and was ?somewhat autistic". Bingo. "Personality disorder" screams "mental health issues" and screams "medication" and screams "who the fuck allowed firearms into that house"?

If you have anyone in the house who has mental illness, is on medication, or has problems with anger management, you cannot have firearms in the house. It should be a law.

Anyone that sees any kind of doctor or shrink for mental issues gets put on some list - Let's just call it "the can't buy guns list". When anyone is put on that list it should be cross referenced against a list of gun owners. If anyone in his family or same address has a firearm, someone needs to look in this. Then when someone goes for a gun permit, it should be cross referenced against the "can't buy guns list" to see if anyone in their family or address has mental illness problems.

In this case, the mother bought firearms, and the moment the kid got any kind of treatment for mental illness or any similar medication, a report should have come out at the local police station saying "This woman has guns and her son has mental illness, this is not allowed".

I have a friend of mine who is partially retarded, and mentally he'll forever be a seventeen year old. Yet he's allowed to have an AR15 too.