The Rochester Hills shooting didn't result in any deaths, though a couple of people remain in critical condition. That's the good news, at least.

The bad news is that a lot of innocent people got hurt. That should never happen, but it did.

The suspect is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, which means the people of Michigan won't need to spring for a trial. Again, that's good news as well.

But there will be questions, to say the least. People want...no, people need to try and wrap their heads around what happened, which means they need to search for answers as to what prompted such a thing.

And, it seems, the shooter had a number of firearms and some profound mental health issues.

At least 11 firearms were found in the home of the suspect in Saturday's Rochester Hills splash pad shooting that injured nine people, including children, according to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard on Monday.

[Name redacted], 42, of Shelby Township, believed the government was tracking him, Bouchard said during a news conference in Pontiac.

Family members told detectives that he'd walk around his home with a gun, saying things like "shut your phone off, we're being watched, they are listening to us," Bouchard said.

Among the weapons police discovered in [his] home were rifles, shotguns and pistols. When officers first entered the home, they found an assault-style rifle sitting on the kitchen table.

[His] motive was still unknown, Bouchard said. Detectives have not found any notes or manifestos, or any explanation.

“We may not be able to find one," he said.

And that's entirely possible.

However, I can't help but wonder about how Michigan now has a "red flag" law and here you have a gun who is known to own firearms--though 11 really isn't all that many, despite what some might try to convince you--and was extremely paranoid; a fact he did not attempt to hide from his family, yet no one used the law?

We were told that a "red flag" law would prevent such things from happening. We were told it would empower people to act; to disarm those who were dangerous, who were a risk of hurting themselves or others. We were told it would stop mass shootings.

And while this doesn't meet the level of horror to equal a mass shooting except for those trying to make political points, the fact that it's not a mass shooting doesn't change the fact that the laws in question did nothing.

One problem with those laws has always been that they rely on non-experts to render an expert decision. Some people are alarmed over nothing while others see the kind of behavior discussed above and just think it's harmless. As a result, people who are no danger to themselves or others get disarmed and those who are dangerous are ignored.

It's not the first time we've seen this happen, either. It won't be the last.

Despite the rhetoric, "red flag" laws won't stop shootings. They won't prevent anyone from doing anything if they're truly driven to do it.

But good, innocent people will be disarmed. That's going to happen no matter what if these laws persist.