El Gallo Blanco said:
chico said:
Maybe they're all writing before everything's confirmed (wouldn't be shocking), but here's 2 more - both published today claiming purchased legally.
The shooter used an AR-15 with a "Palestine" sticker on it during the attack, which she legally purchased in December, police said
Shooter at Joel Osteen church bought weapon legally
That's nuts. This person should have been in a loony bin. Clinical psychos with such crime records should not be able to buy guns like you and me.
Not having loony bins anymore is half the problem. It seems like 99% of the time anything like this happens, as time goes on, we find out all the mental health and dangerous tendencies of the shooters. But because we are so soft now, people who have no business being in society are not just allowed to stay in society, but are encouraged.
It's a difficult thing, and if it was one of my kids it would rip my heart out to have to have them institutionalized, but if a person is medicated for schizophrenia, they need to be removed from society. I'm sure the medication can keep it at bay, and so long as they stay on it can be normal productive people, but the concern is if/when they get off the meds for whatever reason. It just takes one slip and what happened at Lakewood can be the result.
I have a friend in my hometown whose brother is heavily medicated for mental health reasons. I don't know specifically what it is, but know he's on meds. Just a week ago, he goes from years of being normal to off his meds a few days and next thing you know he's posting nonstop on Facebook, one post is a hardcore hell and damnation christianesque diatribe followed immediately by a post of hardcore lesbian sex pics, and it's just those over and over all day for 3 days. In between posts he spent his time calling people he knew and random people, harassing them, telling them Jesus is coming and they will burn in hell for their transgressions in a very aggressive and threatening, messiah cultish type of way. My friend is a good person, from a good family, that has one bad apple, but he needs to be kept in check just like this shooter because the next time he slips off his meds, maybe tomorrow, maybe 5 more years from now, or maybe never, but the next time may be more physical to someone, not just phone and social media craziness.