Family Blames Gun-Seller for Murderous Rampage

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34. I'm afraid that you are quite ignorant on the subject of psychology.

In Post 7 : You make a statement that the gun shop owner was not responsible enough for your liking. Because the owner did ask enough questions. As you stated in post 10 that if you were the shop the owner("gun peddler&quot you would be asking all kinds of questions and recording it.

It would be impossible for you to come up with a questionnaire to determine if someone suffers from schizophrenia, let alone the plethora of other mental disorders. Just in the arena of "behavioral disorders" you have in the neighborhood of 140 unique disorders. This number does not include any of the sub-types of these diseases.

But let's just look at schizophrenia. A determination that an individual suffers from schizophrenia is diagnosed solely by qualified psychologists. There is no objective test for schizophrenia. Meaning that there is not a checklist that exists that a psychologist uses to determine if an individual suffers from the disease. Each and every case is quite unique and requires meeting specific criteria including more than a month of experiences, noted behavior and a clinical assessment. Basically an individual cannot walk into the doctor's office one day and walk out with a schizophrenia diagnosis. That process takes months. I'll say it again... Months. The APA, WHO or any other major medical psychological society has never been able to come with one single set of testing that could determine if an individual suffers from schizophrenia.

There are seven subtypes of schizophrenia. Which one did this individual suffer from? What if he was diagnosed and his apparent behaviors were a lack of emotional response, a lack of motivation, occupational dysfunctions? How would your magical questionnaire determine the prognosis of schizophrenia with only these outward behaviors? Does everyone who exhibits a lack of emotional response, poor motivation and has an issue dealing with workload a schizophrenic? No they are not. How had his disease progressed in the 9 years from when he was first diagnosed?

But as far as a questionnaire is concerned, it will never exist. You cannot take centuries of study, medicine and applied sciences and roll them all up into a game of 20 questions and expect any kind of result what so ever.