Meh, understandable that the dad would try to find something else to blame besides his child though. No parent wants to believe that their child would be capable of doing something like this. I would NOT want to be in his shoes.
Nor would I. But the fact is, his son was mentally ill and he was still able to get 14 guns.
That's fucking crazy.
Did he have a psychiatrist? Was he getting therapy? A psychiatrist is SUPPOSED to be able to pick up if a patient is homicidal/suicidal. The biggest problem I see here is our mental health system revolving door policies. They want to get these people in an out ASAP. The insurance companies do NOT want to pay for people to have lengthy hospital stays. If it is at all possible to avoid a lengthy stay, they will stabilize and send a patient home. They usually load them up with anti-psychotics and send them on their way, leaving it up to the patient whether or not to take the medication. These people need to be locked up on a long-term basis in a mental institution. Not given meds and sent away. THAT is our problem here in this country. We rely on medications to solve all of our problems.
It's not insurance companies, actually. The system has been dismantled to the point where it's viewed - as Avg keeps saying - as "their right" to wander the streets, whether they're capable of doing so safely or not. The hospitals don't really have much choice in many cases. Insurance companies are made up of human beings, people who no more want to live with homicidal lunatics than anyone else does. Rules and profits are one thing; sending your children to schools to be gunned down is something else entirely.