I hope from the capture of the nursing home gunman the police and the psychologists can learn enough to "profile" these people. There are those who should be in psychiatric care, those who should be on medication, and those who are "normal" (whatever that is).

I suspect that they experience a sense of hopelessness, of impotence, that they are overwhelmed and since they feel they can do nothing why not end it all in such a way that they will get one, tiny, moment of power and fame. It's called "suicide by cop" and the police hate it, it literally makes them physically and emotionally ill.

We need to learn to recognize who these people might be, not be outraged, searching for "blame", and reacting in an unthinking manner.

This is not about guns -- there are other ways to kill a lot of people and I shan't enumerate them. This is about our society asking why and how.