The gunman who killed four people before taking his own life in a midtown Manhattan office building that houses the NFL’s headquarters had for years sought medical help for frequent, debilitating headaches – including receiving injections in the back of his head, a person close to the man’s family told ESPN.
Doctors, Independent Medical Mental Health Professionals, and to some extent prior personal patterns. Honestly, thats not politically motivated, thats just common sense.
The problem with that is that it’s not currently socially acceptable to seek mental health assistance, and it’s hard to get (long wait and high cost in the US at least) assistance when you need it. So people don’t.
And for the second part, the first time may be the last as they go out with a bang. Ive lost family members due to the combo of these two statements.
But also, history shows that it doesn’t matter that much for the higher impact/mass shootings. If someone is motivated enough, they’ll find a way. It doesnt matter reduce the count as it reduces the ease of finding a weapon, but it doesn’t make it zero and we shouldn’t really try for that.