Gun control might be a good idea... if every method of gun control thus far attempted (At least here in Canuckistan) wasn't worse than useless -- and if they didn't keep tightening the regulations, or trying, after significant shootouts involving stolen or other illegal weaponry.

We can't make a sane gun policy by basing it off extreme incidents like this. And we shouldn't use these incidents as the *reason* why gun control should be in place.

The real question is why nobody cared enough to know this person well enough to realise they were starting to go that far out. Some of the reports suggest a recent decline in behaviour before this, a big cue something was going wrong.