Lock this maniac up (after trial, of course), throw away the key and let’s never speak of him again. Another nut with a gun; I hope the NRA is very proud of his actions.
It does need to be asked. How did he get his weapons?
Legally. One of the first questions asked and answered. It was a shotgun, acquired a year or so ago, because Maryland does have some gun laws that kept him from acquiring the usual AK15. Apparently though, a long record of public and privately conveyed threats and involvement of courts doesn’t disqualify you from passing the background check - or, he slipped through the loophole where if the federal government can’t return a “no” within a certain timeframe it becomes an automatic pass.
I think I remember seeing that the paper was intimidated by his threats to the point that they did not ask for a restraining order, for fear of inflaming the situation. A common call of domestic violence victims, actually.
So on the one hand you have the lives of the victims, their families, their friends, their co-workers, their neighbors, everyone whose lives they intersected with.
On the other hand you’ve got easy access to guns by people with a history of threatening behavior.
Which matters more? NRA? GOP? Bueller?