“Cruz passed a background check, which looks at criminal history and whether someone has been found to be “mentally defective” by a court, said Peter Forcelli, the special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in South Florida.”
He wasn’t found “mentally defective” by a court. If they had chosen one of the two mental-decision blocks in my flowchart, the shooting would never had occurred.