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Back to the actual shooting, this whole thing just looks like a giant failure of US gun laws and a pathetic lack of mental healthcare.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/...6is08g.twitter

Investigators are combing through social media and other information to determine Santiago’s motive, and it’s too early to say whether terrorism played a role, Piro said. In November, Santiago had walked into an FBI field office in Alaska saying the U.S. government was controlling his mind and forcing him to watch Islamic State group videos, authorities said.

On Dec. 8, the gun was returned to Santiago. Authorities wouldn’t say if it was the same gun used in the airport attack.

U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said Santiago would have been able to legally possess a gun because he had not been judged mentally ill, which is a higher standard than having an evaluation.

Santiago had been discharged from the National Guard last year after being demoted for unsatisfactory performance. Bryan Santiago said Saturday that his brother had requested psychological help but received little assistance. Esteban Santiago said in August that he was hearing voices.

“How is it possible that the federal government knows, they hospitalize him for only four days, and then give him his weapon back?” Bryan Santiago said.

Santiago arrived in Fort Lauderdale after taking off from Anchorage aboard a Delta flight Thursday night, checking only one piece of luggage – his gun, said Jesse Davis, police chief at the Anchorage airport.

Basically a guy who is battling PTSD but because of a lack of funding for veteran healthcare (and an appalling lack of attention paid to mental health for all Americans) is hearing voices, literally goes to the FBI about it, the FBI does a quick eval, decides he's fine and sends him on his way with his firearm.

Then the guy buys a one way ticket and checks only one item--a gun--and no one thinks that's a little bit odd?

So since Freedom! and Second Amendment! now you have hundreds of families affected permanently. I made the mistake of seeing raw footage of the scene in that terminal after the shooting and it was absolutely horrifying and it's going to stick in my memory for a very long time, let alone the people who were actually present.

I'm just so exhausted by this garbage. I'm tired of the "right" to weapons superseding others' ability to go to a freaking airport without worrying about getting their head blown off.