Comments on: Mall Shooter A Dropout With Criminal Past

19-Year-Old Gunman Lost Job And Girlfriend In Weeks Prior To Deadly Attack

[hvipda]

Frack gun control. If some one in the mall had been armed maybe it would have ended with less loss of life... or maybe just the waste of space who was the shooter.. I feel bad for the families of those who lost people but not the shooters fam.. since the shooter is dead the only satisfaction the wronged have is knowing that the family of the one responsible will suffer by not only losing their son but knowing they should have seen it coming and tried to stop it.... and maybe the families of the shot can sue the shooters parents and financially ruin them as well... They will then feel so bad and become so depressed they will eat their own bullet and rid the world of this defficent family tree..

[baptox]

This person was severely mentally ill and should never have had access to a gun. The fact that he was able to "borrow" it from his stepfather is a red flag that our current gun laws are ineffective.

No one needs an AK47 for hunting or self protection. Anyone who keeps such a weapon is highly suspect. If the stepfather lent him this gun or left in unlocked, he should be charged with murder.

There has to be some accountablility for incidents like this and it begins and ends with the person who made the gun available to this deeply disturbed kid.

[nathan8804-2009]

NO mark11a_99,

He was a disadvantage youth through no fault of his own a gun ended up in his hands to shoot all those people. We must realize the guns are capable of such actions an not humans. Maybe in hindsight we should offer a life sentence to the gun for committing this crime.

[mark46n]

There a probably millions of high school dropouts in this country that may even have a criminal past, Define criminal past, that would never conceive of such a terrible cowardly crime. This piece of scum was just simply mentally disturbed and it''s to bad he had to take innocent lives with his.

[nathan8804-2009]

You bleeding hearts need to realize man has been killing fellow man from the beginning of time. If there were no guns they would be using knives, spears, rocks, or anything else they could find. Guns are no the problem. Come on people go take a Sociology 101 and History 101 maybe it will open your eyes!

[kansas1946]

Hawkins was not on any medication for mental illness, but he had been treated in the past for depression and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Maruca-Kovac said.
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Which means he was probably put on Ritalin when he was a kid.

[nathan8804-2009]

In 1901 your closest neighbor lived 1/2 mile away at best. Town was 1/2 a day ride on the horse and buggy. Guns were still around then as they are now. The problem is not guns but people!

[nathan8804-2009]

Here we go on the gun control ban wagon. Lets not blame the the moron, his parents, girlfriend, or anyone else; it was the gun that made him do it. Lets not talk about the unarmed rent-a-cops that did nothing either. I think the real blame should be placed on the illegals at McDonlad''s of course that was the reason he was "rightsized" last week no fault of his own. Yes, the gun did it!

[jowand]

In 1901 the murder rate in the US was 1 per 100,000 population, it''s now about 8 times this. IN 1901 ANYONE COULD BUY AND KEEP A GUN. What has gone wrong?

[ubrew12]

We need gun control. Period.

You deniers are as much responsible for these deaths as those in Virginia a few months ago, and those that will happen all to soon in this country.

Lap up the blood. Hug your Uzi, and hide in a closet.