The question I have, and there are more questions that theories about answers, is what makes it more preferable to a person to go shoot people instead of get help? They know something's wrong, and they know they're in pain. Is it just that it's easier to give in to an impulse and die than try to fix their lives and live? I don't think they believe there's anyone that can or will help them and just give up.

It's pretty easy to understand the despair in these times, because people in general seem pretty cold and uncaring, if not downright adversarial. I think that has to change, but we can only change ourselves and maybe affect others with the way we are. I know there will always be dangerous individuals, but I don't think most people WANT to be so isolated and fatalistic.