Should Thousand Oaks Killer Have Been Committed?

By Tom Knighton

There are a handful of ways people lose their right to own a firearm. One of those is to be involuntarily committed.

Based on what we know of the killer in the Borderline shooting, he was a very disturbed man. Suffering from PTSD, there had been incidents before, but now people are taking a step back and asking whether or not he should have been able to have a gun prior to the tragic shooting in the first place.

Should he have been committed after a standoff with police?

The gunman who killed 12 people at a country music bar in California fired a bullet through the wall of his mother’s home during a volatile row in April and spent hours holed up inside until police coaxed him out but he was cleared by mental health officials and was somehow still allowed to own the Glock 45. used in Wednesday’s attack.

In April, police were called to [the killer]’s home in Newbury Park after neighbors heard loud crashes coming from inside the house he shared with his mother Colleen.

She lived ‘in fear’ of him, the neighbors said, adding that [he], who friends have described as ‘cocky’, was ‘hell to live …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms