[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>

[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.

[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.

[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.”

[JimSEA]

"It is very difficult to predict when what someone perceives as stalking, is stalking."

It has been my experience that "mental health professionals" are not too much better off than those they pretend to "help". While being well intentioned, they too frequently are manipulated by those they treat, often for drugs and often to be released. They are taught to be "nonjudgmental" and we all know how much that attitude has helped society in general. Just my two-bits.

[livius]

If we tallied up all the people killed by nuts loosed on society since the end of involuntary committments in the 1970s (he’s just seeing a different reality, man, I mean, like, don’t you know???), we’d be shocked and horrified at what this policy has cost our country.

[Ellesu]

Shep Smith interviewed a victim in the hospital. I think I heard wrong. Victim said Cho smelled bad, he stunk so bad and that’s what he remembered first. Anyone else hear this? Correct me if I heard wrong.

[ArtyFO]

Why doesn’t the court post these adjudications on a public board so that gun sellers can determine if the nut they are selling a gun to is certifiable?

[theBuckwheat]

So now we have a third reason why this mass murder should not have taken place.

1) The Orlando Sentinel reports that Cho set fire to a dorm room. It appears that VT officials did not expel Cho;

2) Neither did VT officials press charges. An felony conviction for arson would have, under federal law, prevented the background check from allowing the sale of the firearms to proceed;

3) Federal law now requires that anyone institutionalized for mental problems report that on his BATFE application form. It is a felony to not properly report this. Further, the federal government has been accessing records of such people to use in denying their ability to pass the background check.

And the libs say we need more laws to prevent some future mass murder. Sounds like snake oil. If the laws we have don’t stop mass murder, then obviously we don’t have enough law. Strangely (or predictably) most of the new laws always seek to restrict lawful ownership and use far more than they seek to address mass murderers.

[nopardons]

bttt

[MinuteGal]

....and now thousands of VT students are urged to go to "grief therapy" and "bereavement counseling" by all those shrinks who used to go to shrinks themselves.

(.....shiver ((( ))).....)

Leni

[Dont Mention the War]

He slipped through so many cracks.

People wanted him to slip through the cracks. The police / campus authorities didn't want to deal with another problem, and his peers didn't give a tinker's d*mn about someone who was "different."

Sometimes, society produces monsters. I'm rather amazed it doesn't happen more often, to be honest.

(Which is not to say some people aren't just full-bore nuts from the moment they're born, but I haven't seen any indication of that here. This guy seems to have been building up his hostility slowly over many years.)