It Will Happen Again

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Federal gun laws prohibit anyone who has been committed to a mental health institution against their will or adjudicated “mentally incompetent” from legally purchasing a firearm. Anti-gun liberals need to know this because David Katz, the Jacksonville murderer, legally purchased not one, but two handguns within the last month in Maryland.

A clinical history of psychological issues does not preclude someone from buying a gun.

It should.

And medical records pertaining to a history of psychological issues are considered private, protected patient information.

They shouldn’t be.

David Katz had a long…

Aa life-long history of psychological issues…was on more than one medication related to his psychological issues…and the police in Columbia, Maryland, from 1993 to 2009, were called to Katz’s home no less than 26 times for reasons stemming from his psychological issues.

Liberals need to know this because unless things are changed, a psychotic like David Katz can, and did pass every background check mandated by federal and state law and was able, and did purchase the handguns with which he killed two and wounded ten more before turning one of those guns on himself and doing the world a favor.

Katz was at a gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida last week at Jacksonville Landing, a downtown shopping complex that is, no doubt, a gun-free…target rich zone. Katz, the only person in the place with a gun, was a bad guy. He had been a mental wreck since his early childhood, he was armed and dangerous, and he was deranged.

It is pretty obvious that Katz lived in a world of fantasy. He was a gamer who, on the day after his 14^th birthday, called the police himself because…”my mom keeps punishing me by taking away my video games.”

It seems reality wasn’t where David Katz wanted to live, and he probably felt more comfortable in the gaming world where nothing was real, violence racked up points, and his high score meant more to him that anything the real world had to offer.

Columbia, Maryland is a wealthy place to live, and certainly a wealthy place in which to grow up. Katz’s parents weren’t hurting for money. His father worked for NASA and his mother worked for the Food and Drug Administration. His parents divorced and the real fight was over how to take care of the kid who would grow into a murderer.

Katz’s dad didn’t want to believe his kid was psychotic and railed at the notion that he was on anti-psychotic medication. His mother on the other hand, wanted her son on the meds, but also explored other avenues of treatment such as a social worker and art therapist.

Did she really think that drawing pictures was going to do the trick? Apparently the coloring books and Crayons weren’t enough. There is no indication that she tried a therapy puppy or bottle of bubbles and may well have caved on the video game take-away punishments allowing her son to be babysat, entertained or “counselled” by a world of violent make-believe.

It is difficult at best, even for those trained in such things, to know what was in the mind of a psychotic and I’m no expert in such matters, but there are indicators in this case that are clear. As the murderer is dead, even experts are left with nothing but speculation and common sense makes up for a great deal of missing clinical evidence.

We’re talking about a kid who at an early age started to display intense mental issues and was put on a variety of anti-psychotic medications. He grew up in a wealthy area with wealthy parents meaning he probably grew up getting whatever he wanted that money could buy.

He was a loner, quiet around other kids in school according to some of his classmates.

His mother and father were at odds as to how to deal with his psychotic issues. The older he got, the more those issues presented themselves to the point that police were called dozens of times regarding his behavior. His parents divorced in what has been reported to have been an ugly split focused on the nature of his future care.

This would lead anyone with common sense to believe that the kid, becoming an adult, would have played both parents against one another, and yet never agreeing with either of them. The mother wanted his anti-psychotic medications to continue along with a variety of other treatments while his father was in some sort of denial over his son’s mental problems and did not want the medications continued.

Katz lost himself in a world of virtual non-reality playing video games which his mother more than likely saw as a reprieve from her having to deal with him, and his father most likely saw as a waste of time, regarding Katz as some sort of slacker.

By last weekend, David Katz was 24 years old…still living at home and we can reasonably assume with his father because that was the townhouse in Maryland that was searched by law enforcement after the murders. It is most likely that Katz stayed at his father’s home because there, the pressure to continue with his anti-psychotic medications would be less, even though the pressure from his father to do something with his life other than playing video games would have not only been greater, but a anger trigger for David Katz.

This is where the three worlds of David Katz would collide.

That’s right, Katz lived in three worlds…the first being a world of psychosis…deep, disturbing and very real psychosis. The second being the world of virtual gaming where he could do anything, be anybody and take on possibly violent scenarios without consequence. The third world of David Katz was a world of entitlement having grown up in a wealthy place with wealthy parents where he felt entitled to whatever he wanted and when those things weren’t simply presented to him at his desire, he would more than likely use his psychosis to make life so miserable for his parents that rather than be firm with him, they would cave as a way of calming him down.

David Katz legally purchased two handguns because he knew his mental health records were sealed. He went to Jacksonville, Florida to enter a gaming tournament that he would, in his mind, surely win as a way to prove to his father that he, David Katz, wasn’t just some slacker…that he was right and that his father was wrong.

Katz felt entitled to win that tournament, but when he didn’t, when somebody else had the unmitigated gall, the audacity to beat him…the psychosis took over and he left the building and retrieved his weapons and then went back inside to exact his revenge.

If He couldn’t be the champion, he would make others pay for his shortcomings.

David Katz killed two people, and wounded ten more in a fury of psychotic rage…and then…quite possibly hearing his own father’s admonitions ringing in his head, and knowing he was then, as a murderer, every bit the slacker and loser he had set out to disprove…he decided to teach both his parents a final lesson and turned his gun on himself putting an end to their hopes that someday he might somehow get better.

It most likely wasn’t remorse over what he had just done that compelled him to kill himself nor was it likely the prospect of spending the rest of his life locked up without his precious video games…what got to Katz in the end was the fourth world…a world in which he never existed…the world of reality.

In that moment, he saw reality and wanted nothing whatsoever to do with it. He was worse than a guy who lost at a video game tournament…he was everything sub-par that he had probably been told he was and he knew he would never be anything more.

The psychotic just couldn’t handle that reality.

Given all of this…the facts and the supposition based upon the facts…David Katz did the unthinkable but what is unthinkable should never be mistaken for the unexpected.

As long as the laws are set so as to make it legal for those who are suffering from deep, disturbed mental illness, for those who are indeed mired in psychosis to legally purchase weapons…the unthinkable should be expected.

Sadly, even knowing what is true, and what can and should be easily conjectured regarding this act of murder and so many others with similar circumstances, liberals will ignore the murderer and focus instead on the gun…will excuse the killer and blame the gun…and will further endeavor to infringe on the rights of the good, law abiding people whose mental state is stable in the misguided effort to protect those whose mental state is anything but.

A psychotic buys guns legally and uses them to commit murder…and all liberals can think to do is stop good people from having the ability to protect themselves.

Until things change…until the laws take into account that those with severe mental illness should be prevented from purchasing guns…this will happen again.

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