Got an agenda? Mental health of shooter provides opportunity to push your favorite

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2. These shootings tend to be perfect storms with failures

at multiple, critical, hazard control points. Because few controls are perfectly implemented and allow for small probabilities of failure, the possibility of multiple failures and catastrophe cannot be nonzero even if it is very small.

But within a large population these rare occurrences occur. And they are moments of opportunity to exploit the shock and willingness of society 'to do something'. It seems all sides have players trying to do 'something'. It's just another forum for implementing shock doctrine.

Unfortunately, whether any legislation is successful or not, is that using fear of the mentally ill for political purpose endorses fear of the mentally ill.