This time the right guy had a gun, and stopped more carnage.

[Bettie]

195. I tend to lump in with mental health care

things like learning conflict resolution and anger management, both of which we need to be proactive, as a society, in urging people to learn. I do understand the point about mental illness, but I don't know where else to categorize these things.

And easy access to guns is the primary issue.

I personally believe that a strong secondary issue is that many of the perpetrators don't have the skills to deal with anger or frustration or even to identify what the real problems in their lives are, choosing instead to find someone else to blame and to punish.

They aren't technically mentally ill, but they are also not generally fully rational either.

I hope that makes sense, in some way. I wish, for example, that schools could teach kids to resolve conflict and deal with anger/frustration earlier, that it could be reinforced as they grow older, because a lot of parents don't or can't teach this.