Originally Posted by Rochard

And thus is the problem - we have mentally ill people who aren't being judged incompetent.

My friend John is obviously mentally handicapped. He operates on the level of a fifteen year old or sixteen year old. He's disabled from both the US Army and US Post Office, and "barely" exists as a private citizen. He's fifty years old, owns a house (with his mother's help because the banks won't allow him to have a debit card no less a home loan), yet his power and his phone gets turned off every month because he remember to pay the bills. He's been rear ended four times in two years but they are "not his fault" even though he drives a big truck, drives way too fast, stops short, and locks up his breaks more in fifteen minutes than I do in ten years.

He's armed with a AR15. He also worked at the post office, and hasn't gotten laid in twenty years. He's primed to go off.