Man, I keep seeing “we need general mental health screening, not gun control” articles.

Think about the sheer scale of that endeavor. I mean, millions and millions of kids that fit the vague “could be a shooter” profile—depressed, angry, male, socially marginalized—and there’s no secondary set of categories to filter them. And then what? Forced treatment? What kind of treatment? At least one operating theory is that several school shooters were on medications that caused aggression. If you stick to talk therapy and life skills, how do you craft a standardized program? How do you force compliance from parents and the suspected kids? How do you not make the depressed/angry/marginal trifecta worse by laying such a damning label on them? And who’s paying for it all?

I mean, I’m all for a better mental health apparatus, and a would love to see a cultural change regarding helping people get assistance rather than be ashamed, but this is just…over the top.