Mental health screening is penny wise and pound foolish. It will not pick up the sad souls such as Mr. Cho. It will unnecessarily scare and traumatize the innocent. 11% of the population is mentally ill.

What we need is prevention, not mass hysteria. Mental health care needs to be elevated to the status of acceptable, the IN thing; where ALL have quick and easy access.

Right now if you get it you are a leper in society. People shun you instead of embrace you. Your career is in jeopardy and you have three strikes against success and happiness in life.
There obviously were many warning signs with Mr. Cho which were ignored. Our demasculinated society, where we ignore the wrongs and problems in front of our face, talk the talk, but rarely walk the walk, ignore our neighbors, fail to intervene when children -not our own bully and fight in the park, fail to support activists who defend our rights, put ourselves on a pedestal and go all out to enrich our selves and put ourselves before others, don't care who we step on to achieve our greedy goals, and generally are passive sheep to the slaughter motivated by greed, selfishness, and lack of empathy is to blame.

God Bless Mr. Cho's family. Like the Amish, we should reach out to them, comfort them, and assure them they had nothing to do with this catastrophe. They should be encouraged to help come up with a plan to improve mental health care so they feel closure and peace.

Unfortunately, wearing blinders is a sign of population explosion. We cope with population stress by wearing blinders to what is around us. We need extensive research as to how to avoid this. In Asian societies, the philosophy of community first and individual second has provided thousands of years of proven worth. Ways to achieve this in Western cultures may be a START at addressing the issues.

When we live as a village, caring for others MORE than ourselves, we will be able to help the Mr. Cho's at an early stage, by recognizing signs of instability and psychosis, helping them get treatment, having them accept treatment because it is the IN thing to do and embracing them and honoring them for doing so for the betterment of society, for successfully continuing treatment.
United we stand. Divided we fall. If we do not unite to care about each other MORE than ourselves, our society will be no more to be admired than those who waited at the deathbed of the dying woman in "Zorba the Greek."
This is a wake up call to America, to stop the greed. God Bless the victims, Mr. Cho and his family.

I believe in and understand the importance of faith, but for George W. Bush and the Bush administration, faith is nothing more than a tool used to manipulate and dupe a segment of the population into supporting them, as many fundamentalist Christians have come to realize.  George's kind of faith is nothing more than a con.

The whole damn Bush administration are nothing but a bunch of grifters who never miss an opportunity to work an angle.  Hard to believe these scum sucking chiselers are in control of America, and there's nothing we can do about it.

If God were really listening and watching then George would be burning in hell right now.  He'd be slow roasting the entire Bush administration over an open fire.  

Take a look at Sanchez's posts.  Just switch Christians and Leftists.

My take is..if you believe in an all-knowing, all-powerful man in the clouds, you better be thick-skinned and prepared for some ridicule.