Va. Tech gunman was stalker; went to mental facility

Va. Tech gunman was stalker; went to mental facility

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Well it looks like things are coming out on this person for sure. He should have never been able to buy a gun with any type of mental commitment to a mental hospital.

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I wonder if he had a diagnosis of ADHD or something similar and was put on Ritalin, Prozac or any similar prescription drug.

There is a claim that the majority of school shooters in the United States had been diagnosed with ADHD and that they were on anyone of those drugs.

Bandit,

You are 100% correct. I know for a fact the the Columbine shooters were on Prozac. These SSRI's are causing many imbalances that people are not aware of until it is to late.

Here is a link that might help.

America Overdose's on Anti-depressants

It has been widely reported that he was on anti depressants.

In fact, its reported that he had a prescription bottle of them on him, in his backpack when they found him.

Well, so much for background checks.

I always thought that the profit motive by the gun sellers always override the public welfare.

Way more to this case than meets the eye.
Just way to convenient to have happened during one of the greatest scandal the Whitehorse is facing with the email destruction.

Well, they have found that in people who commit acts of violence a decreased activity in the frontal lobe and in the cortexes on the side of the brain. Now, obviously this is a good indicator that these people don't think as we do. Their brain is wired completely different from thet of the average citizen.

Here is a site with information about this based on the research of daniel Amen

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[edit on 18-4-2007 by SpeakerofTruth]

Mod sorry for the long quote but I think this needs to be addressed now.

This person should not have been able to purchase a gun period.

Gun Control Act of 1968

The article says he was committed at one point, either voluntary or not, proper documentation should have prevented him from ever legitamately purchasing firearms. Either the background checks are not sufficiently searching mental health databases, or the physchiatrists who worked with him should have direct blame for why he was able to purchase his weapons. While one of the "stalked" girls obtaining a court restraining order would've also denied him any chance of buying any of these weapons; I believe this massacre would have been carried out with illegal firearms..

CNN has done an article on this angle, apparently his commitment to a mental facility was not involuntary and therefore he wasn't technically committed.





CNN Article

I'm not at all familiar with Virginia law but it seems that the judge has the option to "refer" someone to a mental health facility instead of ordering it. Since he was "referred" it isn't consider a "commitment" and doesn't show up when they do a background check for gun purchases.

My gut guess would be the reason they allow this is a budge purpose .. if the judge requires them to be committed I imagine the state has to reimburse the mental facility for their cost.

I'm surprised a judge is involved at all. Here in California if the peace officer feels someone is a danger to themselves/others they can order a 72 hour hold for evaluation ... of course the mental facility can let them go 5 hours later if they feel they are no longer a danger.