re: To the "This could have been prevented crowed with stricter gun laws":

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How about we stop trying to approach every problem as something technology could solve, because that is a very lazy approach. This could have been prevented by people. Responsible, rational-thinking people.

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Notice how I included the part that the family he was living with knew of his background, but still let him own a firearm?

I'm not trying to take the lazy way out. I'm pointing out that rationally thinking people, with the access to the right information, could have stopped this. Access to the available information is what I'm noting here.

Colleges all across the US do similar things where they pull GPA data, attendance data (if available), changes in scholarship recipients, on-campus police reports, residential hall incidents, etc. to determine if someone is at risk for dropping/failing out and work to intervene before it happens. Same could/can be done with the Local PD (including FBI report), School System, and Mental Health/Hospital System.