ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

[HairOfTheDog]

So many unstable people with access to weapons.

There are so many unstable people and so many guns in circulation, it's impossible to keep them from each other. But, I do think we can do a better job reducing the number of unstable people with access to guns via universal background checks, better enforcement of existing laws, severe prosecution of straw purchasers, enforced mandatory reporting of destructive mental illness from all states, etc...

Unfortunately, as in this case, lots of times the bad guy with a gun was thought to be a good guy with a gun right up until the time he decided to shoot innocent people. Tordil has been a police officer since 1997 and he was also a black belt and instructor in aikido.

Some outlets are reporting that Tordil had his guns taken immediately after the abuse protection order was put in place, but he was allowed to carry a hand gun while on administrative duty (I don't know if he had to check it out and in before leaving the work premises).

I would like to hear directly from identified sources at the local police department and at his employer, The Department of Homeland Security Federal Protection Services, about whether his personal weapons were immediately seized and how his work weapon was monitored.

Either all of his guns weren't seized, or he legally purchased guns after they were seized even though the protective order should have prevented that possibility, or he took his permitted work-only firearm off the premises to kill three people, or he secured the murder weapon(s) illegally.

In any case, he killed his wife in front of their young daughter on Thursday and robbed two other families of loved ones on Friday. As of now, LE doesn't believe he knew the two people he killed on Friday, but that's still under investigation.

For some residents in the area, there was a kind of deja vu going on when Tordil was finally cornered. After he allegedly killed his third victim, he went to a nearby strip mall, got a coffee at Dunkin Donuts, browsed the aisles of Michael's Crafts, and then went and ate lunch at a Boston Market (by this time, 100 officers were outside waiting to rush in). The Boston Market he exited was the same one where DC/Beltway Snipers, Lee Boyd Malvo (in prison for life) and John Allen Muhammad (executed), had eaten lunch after shooting/killing random victims back in 2002.

Ref:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pub...story.html