A triumph for gun rights?

[Guns Guns Guns]

Ian Stawicki, 40, had suffered from mental illness for years and gotten "exponentially" more erratic, his father said, but family members had been unable to get him to seek help.


Walter Stawicki said he was "bitter" that it was so hard to get his son help.


"He wouldn't hear it," he said. "We couldn't get him in, and they wouldn't hold him. ... The only way to get an intervention in time is to lie and say they threatened you."


Walter Stawicki recalled a son who liked dogs, kids and plants. He joined the U.S. Army after graduating high school, but the Army honorably discharged him after about a year, he said.


Stawicki obtained a concealed weapons permit in 2010 from the Kittitas County sheriff's office.


The permit shows he owned six firearms.


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[SmarterthanYou]

Stawicki had no criminal record

nuff said

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

Stawicki had no criminal record nuff said

So you agree he had every right to possess and carry as many guns as he wanted?

 

[Don Quixote]

Stawicki had no criminal record

nuff said

so innocent people are dead and injured and no problem because he did not have a criminal record

we need a better way to identify our mentally ill

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

so innocent people are dead and injured and no problem because he did not have a criminal record we need a better way to identify our mentally ill

How do you know the dead and injured were "innocent"? Maybe the gun owner was standing his ground, or perhaps his rights were being violated.

Who diagnosed the gun owner as "mentally ill"?

Where in the Second Amendment is there any restriction on bearing arms?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

So you agree he had every right to possess and carry as many guns as he wanted?

yes, the government failed him. why was he honorably discharged from the army after a year? that piece of the story is missing and i'm betting it had something to do with his mental faculties and if that is the case, then the government dodged it's responsibilities.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

so innocent people are dead and injured and no problem because he did not have a criminal record

we need a better way to identify our mentally ill

see my post above. I believe uncle sam just discarded this boy.

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

see my post above. I believe uncle sam just discarded this boy.

Like the Marines did to you?

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

yes, the government failed him. why was he honorably discharged from the army after a year? that piece of the story is missing and i'm betting it had something to do with his mental faculties and if that is the case, then the government dodged it's responsibilities.

Are you speculating?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Are you speculating?

as much as you are.

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

as much as you are.

So, maybe the gun owner was standing his ground, or perhaps his rights were being violated?