He should be the reason that all American's demand proper mental health be available to all citizens. This never would have happened if Kip Kinkel would have had treatment for early onset schizophrenia, as an adolescent would for diabetes. Or, if he'd had a a greater difficulty arming himself to satisfy the motivations of his mental illness.

I agree with kleinbl00, Kinkel was an outlier. His schizophrenia was untreated and became horrific. Kip Kinkel was a sick kid.

A great irony of this, is that the dumbass I overheard fawning over an assault rifle at my local Dunham's Sporting goods store last week. He gave a store clerk a clinic on every last feature of the rifle he admired. It appeared this dude had researched and memorized every schematic drawing and gun mag' review of this assault rifle that he would purchase to provide protection from a boogie man that he likely knew nothing about. Taking the weapon home would make it far more likely that he, or some other untreated mentally ill family member, will make swiss cheese of his body at some future date. Until those with a love of guns pay attention, this will continue.