Another Active Shooter in Texas

[Gman]

[Zundfolge]

Info on the shooter.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/12/keith-thomas-kinnunen/

[iego]

Trump Tweet, acknowledging the advantage of having locally armed people.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...13523581546496

-John

[eddiememphis]

"Kinnunen’s sister, Amy Kinnunen, said Sunday was the 10th anniversary of the death of their brother by suicide, according to ABC News. She told the news network she believes Kinnunen was on his own suicide mission."

“Keith is a violent, paranoid person with a long line of assault and batteries with and without firearms. He is a religious fanatic, says he’s battling a demon. He is not nice to anyone,” his ex-wife wrote in the documents, according to the news station.

On and on. The poor guy was a nut. Arrested many times and let go free. Instead of being committed to a mental hospital, he was let out of custody.

The left wants to blame guns. The right wants to cite personal responsibility.

When someone has a legitimate history of mental illness, who can step in to prevent him from bringing a gun into a church on the date his brother killed himself?

[iego]

The family. They should have stepped in, and or been more active, in the situation you describe.

Normal people, should recognize abnormalities, and intervene as required.

-John

[Gman]

There's only so much a family can do. He was an adult.

[iego]

Family, friends, acquaintances, working along with law enforcement, should be able to limit the individual. If they prove uncontrollable, then prison, etc., is justified.

-John

[Eric P]

Britt Farmer, the church's senior minister, told the Dallas Morning News that the church lost two "great men today, but it could have been a lot worse, and I am thankful our government has allowed us the opportunity to protect ourselves."

It's remarkably difficult to further the cause when people still think like this.

Exactly... who needs permission to carry. It's not governments right to restrict the 2nd

[iego]

A Felon, needs permission to carry.

But, the argument also goes to, that normal people, good people, need to be able to carry, to protect themselves from the times when, family, friends, acquaintances, and law enforcement fail to control a troubled individual.

-John

[Irving]

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