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

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26. There was nothing that made this harder to check that was done

What made it impossible to check is his parents didn’t have home involuntary committed at any point to get it on the record and get him into NICS. They instead chose to go the private route to keep him “out of the system”.

His parents refused to do that. They refused to have charges pressed on any of the 25+ tiems that law enforcement was called to the home because of his actions. His mental health provider testified in the divorce trial the kid was a danger of being violent, especially to the Mom, but failed to report that danger to authorities.

A background check is worthless if it isn’t backed up by data. If the system isn’t informed a person is a danger it can’t bar anything. That’s my whole point here- nobody who was in a position to make that happen, especially the parents, did so.

The only thing that happened recently had nothing to do with cases like this. It was a move to stop declaring every single person who had a representative payee in Social Security to automatically be mentally ill to the point of being a danger- a bad policy that was so bad even the ACLU said it was bad. It had no bearing on this case and saying is did is dishonest at best.