Here\u2019s the federal form to buy a gun. <\/a>\u00a0Question 11f is the relevant question.\u00a0 The instructions on the following page make clear that visiting a mental health institution, or working in one, or having a relative in one, or even being held in one pending trial, is NOT a disqualifying event.\u00a0 There must be an adjudication by a court that a person suffers from mental illness and is a danger to himself or others. \u00a0\u201cAdjudication\u201d means a hearing before a judge with an opportunity to present witnesses in your own defense \u2013 a competency hearing. \u00a0At this point, I see no evidence that happened to this guy.<\/p>\nReporters breathlessly scooping each other; commentators expounding upon the implications of false premises; politicians waving the bloody shirt as provocation; and not one of them actually knows what they\u2019re talking about. \u00a0No wonder our national conversation on such a serious topic is indistinguishable from white noise.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And half the electorate thinks that the media is putting out intelligent, balanced “journalism”.<\/p>\n
It’s pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Texas church shooter was an escaped mental patient so he was ineligible to buy a gun.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 One reporter writes the story, every news outlet repeats it using exactly the same words: \u201cInvoluntary commitment to a mental institution would have been grounds to deny him . . . .\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65057,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65056\/revisions\/65057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}