Personally i'm "used" to seeing these sorts of things in the news. Was in depression, saw this in the news, and (sorry to say but it actually "cheered me up" a little, due simply to the diversion aspect, but i was also a little shocked). The last major "shooting rampage" i can recall is probably the one in Russia. And about 20 years ago, about 20 kms from my family home, there was a masacre - this older guy shot most of his family members on a farm. I still to this day can't really comprehend that it actually happened, even though i have driven past there the odd time since. And that's what i think the main issue with this dude is - that there's a "crossover" or "mix-up" in his distorted mind, between fantasy & reality. Some modern things such as television, film, computer games,... (as well as some classical, time-tested, reality-distorters such as constantly/repeatedly focussing mind on irrational beliefs) can act on the brain to blur the division between reality & imagination, which is dangerous in a major way, as to the subconsious, what is imagined is effectively the same as what is real. So, although somewhat shocked, i am not surprised at yet another mass-killing. Very few countires are except. And the issue isn't really so much politics, religion, cults, ideologies, and so forth, but the current state of human beings - that is the common thread. This current state is that humans are still very much irrational and ego-based, and therefore of lowered consciousness. In another words conscious-mind-based, which is the source of all conflict and suffering. But apparently this current state of affairs, the peak of violence that we are experiencing in the 20th/21st century will pass. My own basic estimation is that this will occur somewhere between 2500-3000. But maybe the world will start evolving into an "adult" within (mid-late) 20xx or 21xx (as 21 yrs old). Time will tell...