Rules Should Have Barred Weapon Purchase (AP headline)

[illspirit]

Read the comment up thread. According to the federal definition, you have been adjudicated mentally defective if a court has declared you a danger to yourself or others. In this case, that is exactly what happened. A psychiatrist found Cho a danger to himself and the judge signed off on that ordering him to counseling and further outpatient observation in 2005.

However, under the Virginia definition, you aren't adjudicated mentally defective unless you are involuntarily committed to a mental institution. Cho's outpatient care and counseling didn't qualify under the Virginia definition (Qualifier: I am taking ABC News at their word here. I haven't actually tried to find the Virginia statute to see if the reporter knew what they were talking about)

Thanks for clearing that up. I read the earlier posts, but was wasn't sure if the psychiatrists had actually delivered a diagnosis providing grounds for a legal adjudication, or if they merely suggested therapy without a court order.

On that note, I was just trying to go to the VA State Police website to try and find the relevant laws, but it too slow to use. Every journalist in the world is probably hammering it right now..

 

[Conju]

You know what, no matter how you slice this orange, it still comes out to be proof that you cannot stop a person hell bent on destruction through gun control. Case closed.