VT Killer Ruled Mentally Ill by Court; Let Go After Hospital Visit (Virginia Tech)

ABC News Online ^ | 4/18/07 | Ned Potter and David Schoetz

[foreshadowed at waco]

This article just made me cry. He slipped through so many cracks. I just wonder if his parents had a clue or knew where to turn.

[TommyDale]

Oy! I smell lawsuits up the wazoo.

[ASOC]

I wonder what he sent to NBC news.

This just get stranger by the minute.

Blech

[Paige]

They’ll blame Bush.

[wideawake]

I hope that firearms dealer who was bragging about how thorough his background check was gets his license revoked.

He makes all legitimate firearms dealers look like negligent morons.

The murderer was not in legal possession of those firearms. He committed fraud and the system gave him a pass.

And now officeholders are calling for the rights of law-abiding citizens to be infringed, when they failed to enforce existing statutes.

[familyop]

That’s what they do now. They evaluate them, give them drugs, and send them home. A Colorado university student was arrested for an obvious dry, morbid joke about the massacre.

Student Arrested Over Va. Tech Remarks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819529/posts

[Jaysun]

Those “mental health pros” never get it wrong. We should entrust them with deciding who should live, who should die, who should be set free, who should be punished. </sarcasm>

[wideawake]

I wonder what he sent to NBC news.

"Dear NBC,

I am about to engage in an unspeakable act of senseless violence - but before I do I want to praise your excellent coverage of the Iraq War. It's really evenhanded and just the way I would do it."

[Lazamataz]

Cho flunks the BATF form 4473, which specifically asks if you have been adjudicated mentally ill or committed to a mental institution. The definition of 'committed to a mental institution' covers a court order.

This person was illegally in possession of a firearm.

[familyop]

"Oy! I smell lawsuits up the wazoo."

Psychs. and social workers have been given some immunities. ...can't recall the legislation titles, but those happened during the '90s. We don't have insane asylums any more. They just put them on drugs and let them go. That's policy.

[sgtbono2002]

Lock up the Doctor , let him serve time for manslaughter. I bet the next shrink will be a lot more careful.

[Clintonfatigued]

If he showed clear-cut signs of being deeply disturbed and/or not fully in his right mind, he should have been committed. If not, what’s the point of having asylums and sanitariums in the first place?

[garyhope]

Day late, dollar short.

[Kevmo]

Thanks for posting this. I thought it deserved its own thread. If he had been caught with a butter knife in an elementary school, he’d have been expelled.

[wideawake]

A Colorado university student was arrested for an obvious dry, morbid joke about the massacre.

It was "obvious" to you, although you weren't there, but it was lost on the people who were actually present when he said what he said.

I'll trust the eyewitnesses' sense of his tone and intent over yours at this point in time.

[Kevmo]

Cho flunks the BATF form 4473, which specifically asks if you have been adjudicated mentally ill or committed to a mental institution. The definition of ‘committed to a mental institution’ covers a court order.
This person was illegally in possession of a firearm.
***Worth repeating

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

This is BIG. And I am not talking about your font size.

[familyop]

That wasn’t the fault of the firearms dealer, though. Cho simply lied/omitted in order to get the pistol(s).

[saganite]

Just curious how the firearms dealer erred. If he did a background check and there was no record on the guy then there’s nothing else for him to do.

Are you saying there was something in the guys record the dealer ignored or that he failed to do a background check?

[siunevada]

I was listening to someone drone on about gun control on the radio this morning and I thought, “These are the same people who convinced the establishment to set as many mental patients as possible free of institutional confinement.”