And speaking of suicide, I’m thinking the reason the shooter hasn’t, hours later, been found may be cuz he done did the deed and it’s harder to find a half-buried corpse or whatever than a live guy driving (what else) a white Ford F-150 pickup.
Motivewise, why does a guy who lives next door to a bar kill four people in it at ten AM?
I’m thinking this is the way you handle ongoing noise ordinance issues in Montana. There’s a presentation to the city council, and there’s The Way of the Glock.
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He had “mental issues for a long, long time,” says a neighbor. Same neighbor also says he saw the dude coming out of his house this morning with an AR 15…
Crazy guy with a semi… Call the cops…?
Why, no ma’am. This is Montana.
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You have to admire their capacity to be shocked.
Says here they’re even in shock.
Weawy? Open carry, permitless concealed carry, everybody armed to the teeth, drifts of drunk depressed delusional army vets dotting the hills like a host of golden daffodils … My dears, you’re awfully easily shocked…
And now that they’ve found his ditched pickup, are you going to be super shocked when they find his body?
And let’s say they don’t find him. Presumed dead.
How long does Anaconda/environs stay locked down?
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Oh plus everyone’s saying he was elaborately ostentatiously mad as a hatter but simply couldn’t find a mental hospital, therapist, psychological help OF ANY KIND.
He “suffered from significant mental health challenges, including schizophrenia and PTSD from serving in the Army.”
Says here there are three veteran-focused public mental hospitals in the state, and though a lot of the people listed here are all wrong for a vet with trauma, the list is very long. I understand the distance problem, but he clearly should have been resident in a hospital while getting treatment and of course someone should have taken his guns away if he was so dangerous to others. Are we going to be hearing from any of his family?
Okay. Family claims relevant hospitals turned him down. Need for more detail here. No primary care doc to prescribe meds? And why does a delusional schizophrenic who scares his family have guns? Why did the NFL shooter have guns? Why did this absolutely insane woman who killed her four daughters have guns?
Fact is, states like Montana get their high gun violence (suicide and homicide) rate because people there care much more about personal liberty than community safety. There’s a reason we call it the wild west.
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Leftwing version of this.
[A]ny intervention that has to be imposed on a vulnerable person is so fundamentally flawed and problematic that the best thing to do is nothing at all. Anyone offended by the sight of the suffering is just judging someone who’s having a mental-health episode, and any liberal who argues that the state can and should take control of someone in the throes of drugs and psychosis is basically a Republican. If and when the vulnerable person dies, that was his choice, and in San Francisco we congratulate ourselves on being very accepting of that choice...