Everyone keeps focusing on symptoms and not the problems. Did the school have the obligation to notify students after the first killings? Did they have the means? Why didn't anyone notice the warning signs? All these are symptoms. How about this one for all you gun toting, 2nd amendment living (which you misread) hillbillys - how come it is so easy for American's to buy handguns? Think about it; countries that do not allow direct access to handguns and have very stiff penalties for possession of handguns have a drastically lower violent crime rate. 39% of American households report owning handguns. We are ranked 8th in violent crimes involving guns out of a field of 32 countries that allow handguns. All the countries that do not allow handguns to be privately owned have violent crime stats so low they do not make any of the international ranks. What are you all so afraid of that you have to own a gun? Zee Germans? Or is it those darn Mexicans coming to take your jobs (like you want to clean hotel rooms and pick vegitables)? Maybe American should outlaw handguns and take all the money that would be spent on guns and ammo and invest it into mental health facilities for people like the VT killer as well as all the Americans that are so deathly afraid they feel the need to own a handgun. So scared. So sad.