He had a history, he threatened a school but nothing was done. Seems like they are trying to point fingers when really we have a serious issue with treating mental illness and mental health. No one wishes to address the elephant in the room.
[1] Mental illness != immediate danger to people's lives
[2] Easy access to guns and ammo lowers the cost to perform mass shootings. Incendiary devices require special knowledge, knives make people's arms tired before "mass stabbing" threshold is reached, automobiles are typically blocked from driving into a store without damaging the vehicle before mass killing is achieved
[3] White supremacy is thriving in certain corners of the internet. Discontent in the marketplace of ideas because only losers adopt it, it lives in protected corners.
I consider your jumping to mental illness as a cause instead of a correlated factor as misguided given the three bullets above.
These are high profile because they are rare to accomplish relative to mass shootings.
So let's focus on fighting privacy and encryption, and forget about gun access/fetishism for a moment.
PS I agree with tour point 100%, just wanted to add another one to the list
PPS Discord doesn't support e2ee, so it's not like we could've avoided this issue with banning it in the first place.