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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeattle'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.
Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)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.)
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Meiko
(1,076 posts)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?.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)That's comforting. What was the source of the anger?
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)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.