Crazy people getting guns is central to our freedom
by David Atkins
Looks like we've learned a little more about the Aurora shooter:
The first glimpse of a once-promising career beginning to unravel emerged Thursday during a hearing in the case against James E. Holmes, accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 in a packed movie theater last month.
Assistant Dist. Atty. Karen Pearson revealed that 24-year-old Holmes, once a doctoral student in an elite neuroscience program at the University of Colorado Denver, had failed oral exams on June 7, made unspecified threats serious enough for campus police to be notified, and had his access to university buildings on the Anschutz Medical Campus revoked. He withdrew from the university June 10...
James Holmes, the accused shooter in the Aurora movie theater shooting, reportedly saw three mental health professionals at the University of Colorado before the massacre took place. KCNC-TV's Rick Sallinger reports.
I understand that the NRA has won the battle over gun control. Democrats have declared defeat. No one dares challenge the NRA, which means we can expect more and more senseless, pointless and avoidable deaths as the "price of freedom."
But for the love of all that is holy, there should surely be bipartisan consensus about the idea that people who are so deranged that they've been barred from various institutions, reported to police and had to consult multiple mental health professionals, maybe shouldn't be able to buy rifles, high capacity magazines and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Right? Surely even Republicans should have the basic decency to agree on that.
But I guess not.
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