07-25-2015, 12:17 PM
The Louisiana theater shooter did in fact have a history of documented mental illness.
Some states have adopted laws that allow them to feed mental illness records into the federal NICS background checking system regardless of HIPAA, but most states have not. That needs to change.
Anyway, more details have been released about the asshole who killed two women and wounded seven others before blowing his own crazy brains out.
![[Image: 2AD19B6100000578-3173524-image-a-1_1437779522173.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/07/25/00/2AD19B6100000578-3173524-image-a-1_1437779522173.jpg)
-John Russel Houser was a law school graduate who once ran for political office and owned two pubs over the years, one which was shut down for underage drinking.
-After the pub was shut down he hung a swastika flag outside for several weeks as a sign of protest (pictured above, Houser outside his pub).
-He also tried to hire a man to light a law office on fire in the 1980s because the lawyer represented pornographic theaters, which he detested.
-Houser has also been revealed to be an active online commenter, who has professed his distaste with the state of the American economy and morals.
-He was a supporter of the Tea Party and Westboro Baptist Church while also applauding the actions of Hitler and Timothy McVeigh.
-Court documents also show that he suffered from mental illness and that his family had him committed to a mental hospital in 2008.
-His ex-wife, Kellie Maddox Houser, said she became so afraid of him that she hid their weapons, according to another 2008 court document.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...s-him.html
Some states have adopted laws that allow them to feed mental illness records into the federal NICS background checking system regardless of HIPAA, but most states have not. That needs to change.
Anyway, more details have been released about the asshole who killed two women and wounded seven others before blowing his own crazy brains out.
![[Image: 2AD19B6100000578-3173524-image-a-1_1437779522173.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/07/25/00/2AD19B6100000578-3173524-image-a-1_1437779522173.jpg)
-John Russel Houser was a law school graduate who once ran for political office and owned two pubs over the years, one which was shut down for underage drinking.
-After the pub was shut down he hung a swastika flag outside for several weeks as a sign of protest (pictured above, Houser outside his pub).
-He also tried to hire a man to light a law office on fire in the 1980s because the lawyer represented pornographic theaters, which he detested.
-Houser has also been revealed to be an active online commenter, who has professed his distaste with the state of the American economy and morals.
-He was a supporter of the Tea Party and Westboro Baptist Church while also applauding the actions of Hitler and Timothy McVeigh.
-Court documents also show that he suffered from mental illness and that his family had him committed to a mental hospital in 2008.
-His ex-wife, Kellie Maddox Houser, said she became so afraid of him that she hid their weapons, according to another 2008 court document.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...s-him.html