I support the right of all law-abiding citizens to bear arms. I do NOT support the right of the mentally ill to bear arms.
The law that forbids the sale of guns to the mentally ill is a good law. It gives voice to responsible gun ownership as a fundamental right.
Bottom line: yeah, he might have found some other way to kill 32 people, but maybe not. He should certainly not have been able to buy a gun to do it.
Nobody should be defending this guy's right to buy a gun because he had no more such right than a 5 year old.
I am still only saying that what I had heard was that he WAS legally adjudicated as mentally ill, but it was either changed or set aside at some later point in time. If you have the final document I would really like a link to it rather than the continuous back and forth.