Aurora shooter was taking antidepressant and hypnosis pharmaceuticals...

[Icy Tea]

If you'd look in the medicine cabinets of our elected leaders you'd find they'd have a whole slew of drugs for physiological mental health and emotional issues. These folks are more dangerous and high risk than the average gun owner.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by Icy Tea

If you'd look in the medicine cabinets of our elected leaders you'd find they'd have a whole slew of drugs for physiological mental health and emotional issues. These folks are more dangerous and high risk than the average gun owner.

Only if the average gun owner is sober, responsible, and has no deep mental issues.

Gun owners are just like those who don't own guns. There is no 'average' gun owner.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by banjomike

Man- you're really getting the Holmes story screwed up!
Holmes was attending college. He dropped out on his own after his schizophrenia manifested itself and became too much for him.

The officer, Lynn Whitten, responded by deactivating Holmes’ key-card access to secure areas of University of Colorado medical campus buildings, according to search-warrant affidavits.

Aurora Shooting Suspect Identified As Threat A Month Before Shootings

He was taking no medication. His parents did not have him diagnosed. He never saw a doctor at all. He purchased those guns he used legally; whether he was acting crazy at the time or not has never been disclosed.
No one warned anyone about James Holmes. No one ever knew he was sick, according to everything that's been published about him. He was observed to be acting very strange just before the Auroroa shooting, but no one alerted any medical professional, or police, or anyone.

The psychiatrist that was treating Aurora, Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes identified him as a threat a month before he entered a theater and killed 12 people:

You're correct about Lanza. And Holmes made plans, too, though no one knew of either's plans.

As long as anyone wants a gun in this country, they can get one. There are plenty to go around, and can always be gotten by theft or from anyone who wants to sell one privately.

These mass killing aren't going to stop anytime soon. The best we can hope for is better enforcement of the laws we already have, and hope for more effective screening tests that are straight forward enough for a legal gun dealer or trader to understand easily and be able to spot people like this.

The biggest mental problem we have to deal with is not the schizophrenics or the people with Asperger's syndrome. Both of these mental diseases are very rare compared to the people who suffer from depression. The chronically depressed outnumber them by far, and these folks are more often to prone to unfocused bouts of anger.

I'm not as convinced that it isn't the treatment as opposed to the disease.