Shooting in Florida

[roberth]

Glad your boy is ok Kelly.

Me too.

[hollohas]

I guess it was the first time in his life he learned that not "everyone is a winner".

My thoughts exactly. When everyone is a winner, no one learns how to handle the disappointment of losing. I think this is one of the major contributors to this sort of violence.

[Skip]

Typical blame game on socials this morning. NRA's fault. GOP's fault. Trump's fault.

But, again, the little monster wasn't a member/supporter of any of those!

Jacksonville Shooter Was Member of Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ – Referred to Trump Supporters at “Trumptards” – Murdered 4 People

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...ered-4-people/

[Gman]

Actually murdered 2, wounded 9 with gunfire, 2 got hurt fleeing the scene, and offed himself. If he just would have reversed that order, this wouldn't have impacted so many lives.

[Squeeze]

Sweet Jesus Kelly. SO very glad to hear your son is okay. I will be sure to stop by when he gets home. Crazy times we live in. Stay safe.

[Gman]

No way!!!

APNewsBreak: Shooting suspect had history of mental illness

BALTIMORE — The suspect in a deadly shooting at a Florida video game tournament had previously been hospitalized for mental illness, according to court records in his home state of Maryland reviewed by The Associated Press.

Divorce filings from the parents of 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore say that as an adolescent he was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities and that he was prescribed antipsychotic and antidepressant medications.

The records show Katz's parents disagreed on how to care for their troubled son, with his father claiming his estranged wife was exaggerating symptoms of mental illness as part of their long and bitter custody battle. The couple divorced in 2007.

Divorce filings say David Katz played video games obsessively as a young adolescent, often refusing to go to school or to bathe. Elizabeth Katz, a toxicologist who worked at the Department of Agriculture, said she would confiscate some of her son's gaming equipment after finding him playing games in the wee hours.

"His hair would very often go unwashed for days. When I took his gaming equipment controllers away so he couldn't play at 3 or 4 in the morning, I'd get up and find that he was just walking around the house in circles," the mother said, according to a transcript included in the court files.

At one point, she put his put his gaming controllers in her bedroom behind a locked door and he punched a hole in the door, she said.

Elizabeth Katz said her youngest son had increasing difficulty concentrating following his parents' split. A judge awarded custody of the boy to his mother, with visitation rights to the father.

At times David "curled up into a ball," refused to attend school and sobbed, she said. She asserted that her ex-husband instructed David not to take Risperidal — an anti-psychotic medication prescribed to him. The father claimed in court filings that David was not "diagnosed as psychotic."

He missed large stretches of school while under his mother's supervision. He was admitted to the Sheppard Pratt mental health system in Ellicott City for about 12 days in late 2007. Court documents say a psychiatrist at that time administered antidepressants. He later spent about 13 days at Potomac Ridge, a mental health services facility in Rockville.

Richard Katz, a NASA engineer, asserted that his ex-wife had "an obsession with using mental health professionals and in particular psychiatric drugs to perform the work that parents should naturally do." He said she routinely gave false information to mental health care providers. He described one incident in which his son was handcuffed by police after locking himself in his mother's car in an attempt to avoid going to a mental health appointment with her.

...but the guns are the problem.

In other news, the guns used in the attack were purchased legally in Maryland. The family of one of the victims is blaming "senseless gun violence".

[eddiememphis]

If he had a history of being treated for mental illness, he obviously lied on the ATF form.

So an honest question is how to keep guns out the hands of nuts with criminal intent without impeding our Constitutional rights?

I don't want to undergo any kind of medical or psychiatric evaluation before buying my next gun. * It's too subjective and the less government the better. But this kid clearly had problems and should not have had access to a firearm, but I can't think of any way to keep them from him.




*(Which will likely be next month, I've been drooling on a Springfield EMP 9mm for months.)

[eddiememphis]

Also, watch out. They are coming for laser sights next. Everything I have read has mentioned them and it's on the news as I type this.

[Gman]

When laser sights are outlawed, only outlaws will have laser sights.

Maybe they should ban batteries next.

[hurley842002]

There is absolutely NO way to keep bad people-crazy people from having guns, drugs, sex, crossing open borders, blowing people up, cussing, etc, etc. Anyone who thinks they can stop someone from obtaining a gun is living in la la land.

Pretty much...