{"id":84822,"date":"2023-03-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84822"},"modified":"2023-03-30T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:52:56","slug":"unexpectedly-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84822","title":{"rendered":"#Unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nashville shooting – or at least, the purchase of the firearms – could have been prevented if people took mental health reporting seriously<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Under federal law<\/a>, it is illegal for \u201cany person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person, including as a juvenile\u201d who has \u201cbeen adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution at 16 years of age or older.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMental defective\u201d is a term you don\u2019t hear often anymore, and some may find it offensive, but under federal law, it has a specific meaning<\/a>: a finding by any court, board, commission, or other lawful authority that a person \u201cis a danger to himself or to others; or lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage his own affairs,\u201d as a result of \u201cmarked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nashville shooter was, indisputably, a danger to others, and that threat to others was almost certainly connected to her mental illness. The evidence was there for her to be declared legally mentally defective and barred from owning firearms. The shooter\u2019s parents believed she should not be allowed to own a firearm, indicating the shooter had said or done things that made her parents believe she was a potential threat to herself or others. But no one acted upon those concerns, and no one reached out to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tennessee does not have a \u201cred flag\u201d law that would allow police to seize the firearms of individuals that are at elevated risk of harming themselves or others. However, under Tennessee law, anyone who has been deemed \u201cmental defective\u201d cannot purchase a firearm in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

How much of this was “fog of war” (from a mental health perspective), how much was bureaucratic inertia, and how much was unwillingness on officialdom and, most likely, the familiy’s part to piss of the increasingly militant trans lobby?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville shooting – or at least, the purchase of the firearms – could have been prevented if people took mental health reporting seriously: Under federal law, it is illegal for \u201cany person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84822","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=84822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84823,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84822\/revisions\/84823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}