Hold Family and Community Responsible for Lunatics with Guns

Reinking's family was well aware of his mental problems

Reading initial reports in the press about this lunatic it seems plain as day that the authorities should not have returned his guns and his father should never have given them back to him.

Now, because of stupidity on so many levels, there are four people dead and countless police occupied in a manhunt.

When the dust settles, who can the victims hold responsible?

I advocate for state laws that permit civil law suits against individuals and local or state authorities for failing to report or failing to take action in situations where the gun rights of the mentally ill should have been revoked, but were not.

Additionally, state legislatures need to continue efforts to pass emergency laws that permit the confiscation of weapons where suspicion of mental illness exists.

In most of these cases there are people along the way with the information necessary to put a stop to these killer's plans. Those that fail to act are complicit in the crime.