Was there anyway of really preventing this? Isn't something like that event the cost of a free society? If they had psychological gestapo pulling people out of society, I guess it could be prevented, but is that a society we/they as a whole want to live in? Psych police interrogating people about what they're thinking in case they aren't good thoughts. No thanks.
No police, but it'd help if a couple psychologists made up a questionaire or something that every applicant for a license had to fill out. Some sort of screening besides the week-long cool-off period they have.Was there anyway of really preventing this? Isn't something like that event the cost of a free society? If they had psychological gestapo pulling people out of society, I guess it could be prevented, but is that a society we/they as a whole want to live in? Psych police interrogating people about what they're thinking in case they aren't good thoughts. No thanks.
I know what you mean, but these kind of issues are probably a dime a dozen for the police and psychologists. I can think of some who have posted on CanCon that, if they ever went looney and shot up something, we'd all be saying we should have seen the signs. Perhaps there can be better gun controls but a guy like him would likely have gotten his hands on something outside of the licensing routine anyway. Hindsight is 20/20.This fellow had enough information about him, on paper, to tell anyone he never should have had
a gun in his hand, at any time. I agree with you Kreskin, but in this case, there was worrysome
behavior, calls to police, and reports, all of which seemed to fall through the cracks.
I know what you mean, but these kind of issues are probably a dime a dozen for the police and psychologists. I can think of some who have posted on CanCon that, if they ever went looney and shot up something, we'd all be saying we should have seen the signs. Perhaps there can be better gun controls but a guy like him would likely have gotten his hands on something outside of the licensing routine anyway. Hindsight is 20/20.
Those assessments, in that sort of detail, are after the fact, unless gestapo are interrogating people and any sign of a symptom. The science seems more of an art until it's crystalized with hindsight.
We would need a society of witchhunts to defend against something like this, and even then there is no guarantee imo.Potential warning signs
Though antisocial personality disorder cannot be formally diagnosed before age 18, three warning signs, known as the MacDonald Triad, can be found in some children. These are, a longer-than-usual period of bedwetting, cruelty to animals, and pyromania.
It is not known how many children who exhibit these signs grow up to develop antisocial personality disorder, but these signs are often found in the histories of diagnosed adults. Because it is unknown how many children have these symptoms and who do not develop antisocial personality disorder, the predictive value (ie, the usefulness of these symptoms for predicting future antisocial personality disorder) is unclear.
Even the link regarding anti-social personality disorder says:
We would need a society of witchhunts to defend against something like this, and even then there is no guarantee imo.