So the NYC idiot managed to stroll on the street while carrying an AR-15 type firearm - which is a neat trick, really.
Apparently per, news reports, he blamed the NFL, even though he never played for the NFL, for CTE, a head injury that is not even diagnosed while you are alive. So yep, he had delusions. Sadly those delusions led him to kill innocents.
In short he was rather non compos in his mentis.
He then entered the building where the NFL is headquartered and killed some people, including a police officer, and then took the wrong elevators and shot a few people on the top floor before killing himself.
Yet again, someone mentally ill and "on the radar" doesn't get the treatment they need and are left free to roam and kill the innocent.
Meanwhile, CNN seems to also be suffering from mental problems as they are having a great deal of difficulty identifying and describing things accurately:
2 comments:
I played football for 9 years, having at least 6 concussions during my high school years. I am 65 years old, and have been retired on disability due to both a back that was broken at the age of 20 and chronic migraines.
While the concern of CTE is of course at the back of my mind, I don't have the extreme mental health issues that seem to follow that type of illness, thank G-d. I have heard of some high school athletes who have died and have been shown to have suffered from CTE, but typically it is something that is seen in professional football players who sustain repeated concussions over many, many years.
While we usually see mental health issues with mass shooters, I don't believe that we can allow that to be used as an excuse for these continued horrific crimes. While there were certainly mass murderers in my youth, it was not the same as it is now. Or perhaps, just perhaps, it WAS on the same scale, which is actually numbered in the 30's or 40's per year and not the thousands that the anti gun people would have us believe. And the only difference now is the 24/7 media cycle that we didn't have in days past, driven by a liberal media.
In any case, since I tend to be more conservative, I am able to see that when any mass shooting or stabbing occurs, it usually only is stopped by calling the police who bring guns to the scene, which often ends with the suicide of the individual or the police shooting the murderer. Fortunately in this case someone was on scene with a gun and willing to step up to halt the horror, without even having to fire a shot. It should prove a point to those who hate guns, but of course it will be swept under the rug, until a new reason to publicize anti gun rhetoric can be pushed on the public.
Pigpen51 - with this one being in New York City, the killer was free to act until the police arrived as no one in that building was armed to stop him except perhaps the off duty police officer he shot on entry that he likely shot immediately and got him by surprise, sadly.
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