In Howard County, parents of Jacksonville shooting suspect had been desperate to find psychiatric ca

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2. They did everything except the one thing they should have

They ran him around to private facilities and care. They had him in various private schools.

Despite his psychiatrist even saying he had the potentional to be violent they didn’t do the one thing that could have stopped this.

Before he turned 18, after any of the 25+ Incidents where police were called to his home, they could have had him taken before the courts, presented his diagnosis, and asked for an involuntary commitment and/or him to be declared mentally incompetent.

Either one of those things would have been enough for him to not pass a NICS check, much less the MD background check for a handgun permit that is even stricter.

But they didn’t. Like typical suburban parents they both wanted him helped, but wanted him shielded from the “system” and didn’t want him “labeled”, so they avoided doing the one thing that really mattered. Because their only concern was him and how society would view him, but they had no regard for the rest of society and how he would affect everyone else.

It’s the same story over and over and over...