Colorado supermarket shooting suspect incompetent for trial

[turbinetree]

Source: Associated Press

By COLLEEN SLEVIN 14 minutes ago

DENVER (AP) — Experts have found a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial for now, attorneys said during a court hearing Friday.

Ahwad Al Aliwi Alissa, 22, is accused of opening fire at a busy King Soopers in the college town of Boulder in March — killing a police officer, shoppers and several store employees including an Olympic hopeful distance runner.

District Attorney Michael Dougherty said four doctors have now determined that Alissa isn’t mentally competent to participate in court proceedings. He requested that Alissa be sent to the state mental hospital for treatment.


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/colorado-boulder-3e9a7f842870d31b556d1019d9b8abca

[LiberalFighter]

1. Why isn't there a way to remove guns from the possesion of those mentally unfit?

[turbinetree]

2. And this just happened ...

https://apnews.com/article/business-shootings-las-vegas-nevada-gun-politics-c47d1055ddc993d56f696b128e13d784

[Traildogbob]

3. Easy answer

NRA AND gun manufactures with cash for GQP to never let that happen. FreeDumb.

[keithbvadu2]

5. The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety.

The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety.

Now it has become an industry owned shill for the sale of more guns and the enrichment of its leaders.

To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.

[intheflow]

6. Although their gun safety stance grew out of opposition to armed Black people, so...

still on point.

The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons

[keithbvadu2]

7. Take a guess - Which one led to gun control legislation, which one won't?

Take a guess - Which one led to gun control legislation, which one won't?

[Skittles]

10. yes

[tenderfoot]

11. I like the top photo that everyone is holding simple shotguns

eom

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

8. That is why I dropped my membership back in the late 80's/early 90's...

... I used to hunt pheasants, sharptailed grouse and deer here in eastern South Dakota. Had an English Setter bird dog. Something for my dad, brothers and I to do (really to get out into the outdoors and do the family bonding thing, limiting out was never the big goal). Their magazine would have a couple of good hunting articles in it, but they became fewer and fewer. The, "my guns my rights and F_^k everyone else", articles turned me off. That along with the increasingly callous crowds that would show up, even when we were hunting on land owned by my family, ie... our own land. Don't know for sure what came first, the, "chicken or the egg", but I have not hunted for about 20 years.

[keithbvadu2]

9. NRA dues and solicitations - comment from a blog (DU I think)

NRA dues and solicitations
comment from a blog (DU I think)

I had a coworker who was a big time gun owner who kept a gun in every room in the house just in case someone broke in (lots of problems with that idea, may be worth a blog article someday, but that’s what he did). He even went so far as to start buying more guns for each room after a school shooting, like home invasion and mass shooting are correlated somehow. He had let his NRA membership lapse and refused to renew it because he got tired of nonstop requests for donations. To him all the membership did was give the NRA to badger him for more money with phone calls, and direct mailings. If the
organization is as strapped for cash as it appears, those solicitations may have gone way over the top and people are simply tired of being badgered for money and are choosing to let their membership to lapse.

[twodogsbarking]

12. Defining mentally unfit is the challenge.

Easily done after the fact.

[MarcA]

4. He had been arrested for assault previously

and had several run-ins with LEO. System needs to have mental evaluations
of anyone arrested for assault. They need to be kept from guns, vehicles and
probably more. Once of prevention worth pound of cure.

[inthewind21]

13. System

Needs a LOT of things. Problem is, everyone wants the systems but no one wants to pay for them. Thank Regan for shutting down all the mental health facilities. There was a time when mental criminals were sent to state hospitals. Now they are sent to jail. Cause that helps. NOT