WA Ping
The reaction to a mentally messed up guy going off is reactionary as usual. The fact that he has been a trouble maker at that same cafe for a long time, been evicted on numerous occasions and reported for his behavior is lost on the liberals.
They guy who stood up and started throwing chairs at the shooter who was only a few feet a way,firing at random probably saved a life or two.
The man’s brother also reported that he was surprised that this hadn’t happened before, that his brother is mentally ill and no one was willing to do anything about it.
Whatcom County is particularly sensitive to mentally ill people using a gun because it has happened too many times in the past few years. One guy in Bellingham pulled a gun on his mother and sister and the father intervened and and got shot instead.
Then there was the guy who lived in the South end of Whatcom County, in a rural area, who went nuts ( a drug induced psychotic episode, most likely) broke into a neighbors house, shot some people, moved on shot a couple more, stole a truck, drove to a gas station in Mount Vernon and shot two more people. Then there was another man, on county planning commission, who went nuts and shot his wife and daughter, killing both. There were probably even a few more of these incidents that I’m not remembering.
My guess is that most of them are drug induced. Meth users often develop psychosis that lasts beyond the direct effect of the drug. Oh, that reminds me of another case of a murder that was drug induced psychosis, that didn’t involve a gun. A sixteen year old, who was ordered by the court to do restitution for a breaking and entry, went to the house of the woman and killed her. No gun, strangled her with the vacuum cleaner cord.
maybe we need to reemploy institutions for the mentally unstable.!!!!