North Lake College shooting: Victim and suspect dead, police say

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7. If so, this might be a case where guns easily-at-hand played a huge role.

Mass shootings take planning and a sick determination/premeditation... most gun laws, permissive or not, are not going to curb true mass shootings.

Crimes of passion, like this kind of feels it might be, are largely influenced by weapons immediately at hand. Someone whose feelings are hurt but doesn't have a gun-in-hand already is probably unlikely to maintain the resolve to kill someone else after the time that would have been necessary to acquire a gun through legal means. Simply put... taking several steps and a few hours (or even days) in order to kill someone takes a helluva lot more commitment than simply going off half-cocked because a gun was already in your waistband.