Read this article.
"DEKALB, Illinois (CNN) -- Northern Illinois University on Friday identified the man who fatally shot five people in a classroom as Steven P. Kazmierczak, whom police described as an award-winning student "revered" by colleagues and faculty.
Kazmierczak, 27, who police said shot 21 people before shooting and killing himself, was an award-winning sociology student and a leader of a campus criminal justice group, according to school Web sites.
Concealing a shotgun in a guitar case, and tucking three other guns under his coat, Kazmierczak walked into a geology class in an NIU lecture hall Thursday afternoon and began firing, police said. The graduate student stopped to reload his shotgun before he took his own life, police said.
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School President John Peters said Friday, without giving a name, that the shooter had graduated in 2006 with an undergraduate degree in sociology and then went on to do some graduate work through 2007.
He "had a very good academic record" and "was a very good student," Peters said, adding that there was "no indication" of any trouble involving him.
Kazmierczak had no arrest record and
no known history of mental illness, and he had a valid state-required firearm ID card, so he had no problem buying the guns, one law enforcement source said."
And this. From cnn.com
"University Police Chief Donald Grady said people close to Kazmierczak have told authorities
he was taking medication but had stopped and had become "somewhat erratic" in the last couple of weeks.
Grady would not name the medication Kazmierczak had been using or the condition for which he was taking it."
Now, I tell you, this is very sad. This is where I got my undergraduate degree in 1991. I attended classes in the very classroom where this shooting took place. My father got two of his graduate degrees there.
You would have never thought that anything like this could have happened like this at NIU in DeKalb, IL. It's such a small city with only 40,000 people. And it is very safe. The whole city is surrounded by corn fields.
I'm just blown away and I don't know what else to say but...
The sheeple are trying to blame, guns, medications, and the level of violence in video games, society or television or movies.
But I think We did this to ourselves. It's not about medications, it's not guns, it's not about simple violence.
It's about the lack of any attention paid to mental health treatment for people who are mentally ill.
First we don't know why he stopped taking his medications. We don't know what the medications were and what they were for. In my humble opinion, no one does something like this who is sane. I think they will discover that he had mental illness. If the meds were psychiatric meds and he chose to take himself off of his meds, as many mentally ill people do, then the medication is not to blame.
What is to blame is society for having dismantled the mental health system in this country. People who are mentally ill need services. They need monitoring and many of them need a place to stay because they are disabled and cannot maintain independent living.
We closed all the mental health facilities in the 80s and we are paying for it. We have gutted funding for mental health services. So we have no one to monitor people who need to take medication to remain functional. So we have people like this guy who take themselves off of their medication and we pay a heavy price.
So, where's the outcry for better mental health treatment, or any mental health treatment at all? No, instead people will blame guns, medications, violence in general etc. while continuing to build gated communities and burying their heads in the sand... 
It's just sad.
