Travis Reinking approached a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee and he killed 2 people standing outside using an assault rifle. Reinking went inside the restaurant afterwards and killed two more people. The shooting ended when James Shaw Jr. (a customer) wrestled the gun away. Reinking then fled and was arrested on Monday. Reinking was wearing no clothes while doing the shooting. He has struggled with mental illness and got in trouble with the law previously when charged with unlawful entry of the White House. He has had his firearms taken away from him twice.
Analysis: We keep seeing this over and over again, such as the shooting in Parkland, Las Vegas and Saratoga Springs. A mentally ill man with an AR-15 goes on a shooting rampage killing innocent people. Now everyone is going to argue about what needs to be done. Some will say that we need stricter gun laws and others will say that we need more help for mental illness and others will point a finger at a broken system that allowed an unstable man to obtain guns. I think in order to save our country we need to do all three. We need to tighten up gun laws, including universal background checks and outlawing assault type weapons. Additionally, we desperately need to address the lack of affordable mental health care for people. Until we fix these problems, we will continue to see high levels of gun violence in America.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/us/waffle-house-shooting-what-we-know/index.html
While mental health care in america is a huge problem, I think it is used as an excuse for murderers to keep their humanity, which is a bigger problem.
ReplyDelete