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pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
Wed May 30, 2012, 11:42 PM May 2012

Seattle's shooter of six people was mentally ill, according to his family. Not surprising.

How do we keep people like this from getting hold of guns?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2018316552.html

The man was identified by law enforcement sources as Ian Lee Stawicki, 40, of Seattle.

His brother Andrew Stawicki, 29, of Ellensburg, said that when he saw a photo on the news of the alleged gunman inside Cafe Racer he recognized it as his brother.

Stawicki said his brother, Ian, was mentally ill.

"It's no surprise to me this happened. We could see this coming. Nothing good is going to come with that much anger inside of you," Andrew Stawicki said.

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Seattle's shooter of six people was mentally ill, according to his family. Not surprising. (Original Post) pnwmom May 2012 OP
Title of an obvious snarky response. Speck Tater May 2012 #1
Wouldn't it be nice if we could skip the rest of those . . pnwmom May 2012 #2
His mental health records would have to Meiko May 2012 #3
"We could see this coming" Oilwellian May 2012 #4
Who knows. But paranoid schizophrenics are often angry people. Plenty of them pnwmom May 2012 #5
 

Speck Tater

(10,618 posts)
1. Title of an obvious snarky response.
Thu May 31, 2012, 12:25 AM
May 2012

Text of an obvious snarky response.

(I'm sure we all expect the obvious snarky response, so now that base has been covered and we can move on.)

 

Meiko

(1,076 posts)
3. His mental health records would have to
Thu May 31, 2012, 12:51 AM
May 2012

be available through NICS so he would be identified as having mental issues when he attempted to buy a gun but this is not going to happen, or he could have told the truth when filling out the paperwork to buy a gun...yea right. But then again he could have bought a gun at almost any gun show without any paperwork. I couldn't find anything that said what type of mental illness he was suffering from, could you?.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
5. Who knows. But paranoid schizophrenics are often angry people. Plenty of them
Thu May 31, 2012, 06:15 AM
May 2012

are on the street, and have access to weapons. We're lucky this doesn't happen more often.

I'm not saying that's his diagnosis. Just that sometimes the "source" of anger is more physiology than history.

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