I'm generally in favor of certain restrictions on the mentally ill from purchasing fire arms. Everyone wants to talk about government involvement or all that but it's always the same tired arguments.

Let's just look at this case then. Parents of the shooter were against the idea of their kid buying guns and the kid was buying them and hiding them. Maybe the solution is to simply require that parents need to approve fire arm purchases for their dependents? I mean if you are living at home and aren't independent it seems to me the head of the household should be able to have a say on whether or not you bring deadly weapons in there. And parents seem in a much better position to find and police this than the government.

Make it a double edged sword law. Parents have the ability to stop their children from purchasing fire arms. But also hold responsibility for their dependents actions should they know about a problem and fail to take action.

I also think you've just got to be smart about securing schools.

The thing with Americans is they are so focused on guns that they call these "mass shootings" but in reality they are rampage killings. They happen everywhere, even in countries with very strict gun control. Just that when the crazy people can't obtain guns (which isn't a bad thing) they'll find alternative means of killing people, like knives.

Some guy in Japan years back stabbed and killed a bunch of kindergarten students. Think the death toll was far worse than this shooting. Soft target and all that.

You have the occasional person driving into a crowd of people.

Hell they even manage to get guns legally. See the Norway summer camp shooting.

The American gun homicide rate is abnormally high compared to other countries sure but the rampage killing rate is about what you'd expect given population levels.

I don't think you see the same media coverage surrounding such things in countries more populous than the us for a number of reasons. One is that when they happen in China the news barely cares what happens over there (and the Chinese news doesn't want to focus on the problem, they'll just be like "this tragedy was stopped by the people's revolutionary police force and the anti social elements will be given no quarter" and they'll just imprison and execute anyone they see as a threat to the social order. Political or otherwise.

India I suspect you'd get beaten to death for this before you even managed to get arrested.