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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paranoid typically means you think something is happening to you that actually isn’t.

What a horrible incident and I really feel for the families of lost loved ones.[/quote]

It's seen in schizophrenia and some forms of bipolar.

Male adults usually onset in college---ages 18-22 is often first onset.

When a kid is away at college, it goes unnoticed because family isn't around to note it.  And, times of stress exacerbate it, are triggers.

Mental health is one of the biggest problems our country faces and is the reason for the vast majority of mass shootings.[/quote]

Stop perpetuating NRA talking points. People like you are the reason we have such a violent society. [/quote]

It's not a NRA talking point - schizophrenia and bipolar do appear in college age, mostly males.  And kids away at college can easily isolate themselves and go unnoticed.  I've got first hand knowledge of just how bad this can be (and side note, it happened at UVa but years ago.) Pair that with easy access to guns and you have what we have in this country.[/quote]

NP here. While I do not believe the majority of mass shootings are committed by paranoid schizophrenics the one that occurred when I was in college was. Google Wendell Williamson.

In that case, the shooter was a law student who had been involuntarily committed twice and was diagnosed, prescribed medication and had been seeing a doctor. His parents knew. His parents also kept a semi automatic weapon in their house, unlocked. His therapist was retiring and Williamson was instructed to start with a new one, was given the name and number and he himself had to set up the appointment. But he never did. And he stopped taking his meds. And when he went home for Christmas break, he started taking his father’s gun out to the woods for target practice against trees, with his parents’ knowledge.

He goes back to school in January and takes his father’s gun with him. A few weeks later he dresses in camo, paints his face, brings the gun and a backpack full of hundreds of rounds of ammunition and hundreds of condoms. He calculates what time of day and day of the week would have the most students on campus, drives down there, parks his car 2 blocks from campus, gets out of his car and starts shooting. He was aiming for men, because they were reading his mind and preventing him from scoring with women. So his objective: kill all men and have sex with all the women (hence the condoms). He shot 4 people and killed 2 (including a boy from Annapolis). The police couldn’t stop him, it took a bystander who had served in Desert Storm to tackle him and stop him. His father never knew the gun was missing until a reporter called and asked him if he kept guns in the house.

Williamson was found innocent by reason of insanity. He sued his therapist who retired, and won. Laws in NC and training of police for active shooters were changed because of this case. Williamson is still alive, living in NC. [/quote]

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