[BunnySlippers]

Mental illness definitely. Gamers are very hard to define. There are lots of great, well-meaning gamers.

I merely was poorly stating my anger at violent games.

[JCBreckenridge]

And Obama is stating his anger at guns. Why are your feelings relevant?

[Post Toasties]

I'm not leaving video games off my list of causative influences by any means. I see commercials on TV for ever more elaborate pursuit and destroy video games, where every vision of the world is armageddon, and I just don't see the appeal to children of a well society - the appeal must be to children who are suffering from the effects of a sick society and are not being allowed the means to express their frustrations with it through normal avenues because of delusional political correctness, except through sublimated video game violence. It is hardly surprising to me that we are seeing more and more examples of the natural result of this.

In this instance, I think that, if this woman had been really concerned about her mentally ill son, that she should have taken realistic precautions to deny him access to deadly force. There is little the state could do, except perhaps to correlate his mental condition with her gun ownership and prod her to do the same. This is something that merely passing a law will not allow, since I strongly doubt that the informational infrastructure is in place to accomplish this.

I've read most of the commentary here, and the fact remains that most firearms violence is with illegal weapons, not correlating in any way with this sad occasion. The concern is not in general with legal registered gun owners, and ultimately, if you could find an honest Lefty with any common sense, they would agree, but they want to consolidate their power, and taking guns from everybody would facilitate that. It is secondary to inconsequential to them whether crime with illegal fireams is reduced, despite their rhetoric.