This Sunday, there was a gun assault at a Waffle House location in Nashville, Tennessee. Four people were murdered. The assailant, Travis J. Reinking, was arrested nine months prior to the attack for breaching a White House security barrier, and had a reputation for "exhibiting delusional behavior, including his belief that the entertainer Taylor Swift was stalking him and hacking his phone and Netflix account." Although his rifles were confiscated and given to his father after the White House incident, Travis' father simply returned them, including an AR-15 later used in the attack, the same military-grade weapon of choice used in earlier attacks such as those at the Stoneman Douglas and Sandy Hook schools. The assailant's troubling record mirrors that of the Stoneman Douglas attacker, and I believe it exposes the ineffectiveness of current regulations to retain weapons from those unfit to own them, signifying the need for stronger restrictions against felons and the mentally unstable in addition to their close relatives that might grant them access to the weapons.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/us/waffle-house-shooting.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&rref=us&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&pgtype=article
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