Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian
This guy's family should be looking at themselves and asking how he came to be like this, and the deceased's families deserve to know the answers. The press in its various guises can serve as both carrot and stick with which to find answers to the question "Why?". If the family isn't inclined to go public with the results, IMHO an incident of this kind and severity gives the press the right to look for the answers themselves. And if this is an intrusion into their family's privacy - tough cheese.
I'd bet the press is all over the family already. I'm pretty sure I know where they live, and I'm also sure I'm going to have to fight through the tent city sprouting around the place on the way home.

On the gun issue, I saw that he passed a background check done in 2003 for his green card renewal. So he would not have had any problems purchasing a firearm legally.