And I don't care that they want to kill themselves, it's the "and the people around him" part that I have an issue with.
And an armed guard would take care of that issue for me.
OK, I'll humour you. Let's say the armed guard is he buffer between school kids and he next awkward psychologically imbalanced kid. Now who protects the school kids from the armed guards?
The problem is people are responding as though there is a need to take care of the weapons he used. It's like allopathic 'so called' medicine. People are responding to the symptoms, and not the cause.
I don't think the problem was all the guns he had access to. Those guns were legal, simply stolen. Implementing gun control for this is like restricting vehicular control, judiciously determining who can own an SUV or not because some nutcase decided to steal one and tear through the grounds of Disneyland, plowing through groups of children on their way to meet Mickey.
I think mention of the mind bending medication he was on is conspicuously absent from the media reports. Why are people not addressing that? Wasn't the Virginia Tech shooter hopped up on meds as well? What do these pharmaceutical companies put in their concoctions that so frequently result in guys going postal.