I read some stuff in the paper about the perpetrator's ramblings...he was one immature, irrational jerk who should've been doing something to get his head on straight, not posting to "vampire" websites and wallowing in junior-high level fantasies about all the stuff he hated for no specific/rational reason. The people who are saying he was an OK guy must be neck-deep in denial and his parents sure botched up raising him.
pwrstrk02- I agree with you (probably not the most popular position on this stuff, huh?) about the bullying. I too think that society's acceptance of bullying/etc. has a lot to do with much of the "so surprising"
violence that erupts "out of nowhere". Don't torture these kids, don't rob them of hope and aspiration, and they won't go on their rampages.
This one doesn't appear to be that sort of thing...this guy was a 25-year-old who spent his time on "internet role-playing games" and other such loser-magnet stuff like the aforementioned "vampire"-centric boards.