[allendale]

Hard to believe that if the cops were actually called by this deranged man’s family, with all the gun control laws already on the books in California, that there was not a policing technique that passed constitutional muster, that would have stopped this lunatic before he started shooting.

[867V309]

with all the gun control laws already on the books in California, that there was not a policing technique ...that would have stopped this lunatic before he started shooting.

That's not what the laws are for.

[spokeshave]

Hard to believe that if the cops were actually called by this deranged man’s family, with all the gun control laws already on the books in California, that there was not a policing technique that passed constitutional muster, that would have stopped this lunatic before he started shooting.

slap him with a 5150....

Section 5150 is a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code which allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person suspected to have a mental disorder that makes him or her a danger to self, a danger to others, and/or gravely disabled.