"He picked her up and threw her. It was pure rage. She twisted her ankle. Everyone was flipping out"

[Honeycombe8]

42. "Having a temper" is what you posted as what was said about GZ.

“He had a temper and he became a liability,” the newspaper quoted the former co-worker as saying. “

That's what you posted.

Whether he had a temper or "anger management issues" as you diagnosed, is in the eye of the beholder, unless you have been examined & diagnosed by a psychiatrist or psychologist.

That's my point. How could a gun shop determine whether a man "has a temper" or "anger management issues." As a practical matter, it would be very hard to do, if possible at all. The co-worker said he had a temper. That can be said about most of the men in the country, besides being a subjective and non-expert opinion.

That's why gun ownership goes by criminal conviction record and things like that. That is a definite thing that can be checked.

I'd also disagree that most men with anger management issues kill people. There again, you get into trying to determine who in the popoulation qualifies as having "anger management issues." Do you have a list of those people?

The problem, IMO, is not the gun. It was that this guy had some issues that everyone knew about, but no one did anything about it. It was foreseeable that an overzealous guy roaming the neighborhood with a loaded weapon would end up hurting or killing someone. And no one intervened. Incl. his family. We have a neighborhood watch. I can tell you that if one of our watch members took to roaming the streets with a gun, looking for so-called criminals, we'd do something about it. We would KNOW that he was dangerous & something bad would happen sooner or later.

That's why you had the statements by homeowner watch group members almost right away dissassociating themselves with GZ. They KNOW they are partly responsible, and are taking steps to not be held accountable, both morally and civilly, when the Trayvon Martin lawsuit is filed (and it will be).