Posted on 09/17/2013 5:12:46 AM PDT by Perdogg
U.S. law enforcement officials are telling The Associated Press that the Navy contractor identified as the gunman in the mass shootings at the Washington Navy Yard had been suffering a host of serious mental issues, including paranoia and a sleep disorder. He also had been hearing voices in his head, the officials said.
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I kind of agree with this.
Look how violent, how many war crimes the Japanese committed in World War II.
A lot of them were Buddhists and also practiced Shintoism of which I don’t know much.
Same thing for all those countries in South East Asia, Cambodia has a lot of Buddhists but they also had the Khmere Rouge there.
When someone is fired, his badge has to be invalidated immediately! Pictures of suspected dangerous people have to be distributed to the guards.
"Schizoid" means something different from what you think it does and is not "treated at home with medication". It is generally not treated at all.
“They “treated” him for his mental disorder alright...”
If this man was truly hearing voices then he needed to be hospitalized right then and there not released to possibly endanger society. If, if, if, if... he was that ill as to be hearing voices then he was truly sick and was in real need of help not pseudo science.
Often, to fill positions, they run through a quick background check, and if you're okay, then they hire you, and perform a more complete check that could take months.
That being said, since the dude was arrested at least once in TX for discharging a weapon within city limits, and apparently had other issues as in 2004, while living in Seattle, he shot out the tires of a car parked in front of his house. This crap could have easily been verified with LE, especially during any background check.
I was referring to the fact that he ended up shot to death by the police.
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the LIRR gunman years ago.
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Colin Ferguson..
He was a black guy who murdered about 7 people..
The people in the train carriage with him were trapped and sitting ducks..
he defended himself and got to cross examine his victims who lived..
He asked one lady “do you see the man who shot you in this courtroom ??”
The poor woman screamed at him “It was you !!!”
Sick...
But I doubt Hitler was vegetarian for religious reasons, at least not the kinds of reasons Buddhists use.
From the article:
“....Aaron Alexis, 34, had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for his mental problems, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation in the case was continuing. The Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance that Alexis had from his earlier time in the Navy Reserves....”
The impression I am getting after reading many articles was that his clearance was never revoked following his 2011 discharge. I could be and probably am wrong. When a followup clearance was done, none of this showed & if the reasons for his 2011 discharge showed no one seemed to think it was important.
Aaron Alexis, the Va. Tech shooter, James Holmes, the AZ shooter, etc.- all of these men exhibited warning signs of mental illness before they went on their rampages...
I’m against restricting people’s liberty... but when an individual is essentially “controlled” by his mental illness and he is a potential threat to others, that’s a much different matter. Want to help reduce the problem? Then, it’s high time that legislators revisit civil commitment laws.
“Because the Liberals closed the insane asylums back in the 1960s.”
Remember Whorealdo reporting on Willowbrook? It’s his claim to fame.
Then the baby got thrown out with the bathwater after that.
And that is somehow Reagan’s fault? Your explanation is wanting...
“So.... the mental health NICS checks are not in place, right? Because dude bought a legal shotgun.”
I know in NY everybody gets run through a NICS check before purchasing any firearm. And that was before the current foolishness passed by the state.
“Read up, the ACLU was suing people, probably the Government for them to let the institutionalized out on the street with the ACLU claiming these people’s rights were violated. Look it up.”
Also see Whorealdo Rivera and “Willowbrook” back in the 70’s. It was downhill from there.
The de-institionalization of the mentally infirmed happened on his watch.
Race trumps all. Just ask Eric Holder.
The 2 biggest problems with that were and are, the Russians used it politically and here who and what decides which nuts we lock up. Therein it becomes a very slippery slope.
This sort of shooting situation points out, in bold letters, that all the citizen spying is mostly irrelevant, just another in a long line of their reach far exceeding their grasp.
Was it some law being passed requiring POTUS signing? Or was it as many have pointed out a legal suit by the ACLU, that just happened to occur during same time-frame?
Your continuing inference is that Reagan must have single-handed issued an EO banning locking up nuts.
The gun ban nuts will be pressing this as yet another cause for gun control... never mind the fact current law prohibits someone with these mental issues from owning a gun in the first place. Somewhere in the existing database was a breakdown that allowed him to buy whatever gun he bought in VA. Here in this state, the purchaser must pass background checks in not only Virginia, but at the federal level too. Sounds more like a systemic flaw.
Nope. In the late 1970s, the ACLU and other pressure groups called for large mental health facilities to be closed, pushing the notion that "warehousing" the mentally ill was "cruel and inhumane." So the emphasis shifted from commitment to facilities to "community care and treatment." Remember all those "homeless" the libs hollered about back in the early 1980s, as they tried to tag Reagan's supply-side economics policies? Many of them were mentally ill.
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