What This Shooter Thing Was All About

While most of the news groups are busy trying to tell some anti-gun story.....let's focus on this shooter guy in Annapolis.  His basic story:

This guy got something into his head that he wanted to 'kindly' thank one single girl from high school who was polite and nice to him.  He explained that he had some 'issues'.  She took the email....read it....then said in a blunt way, she said that she didn't remember him (this being five years after high school).  Then she suggested that if he did have 'issues'....there were marvelous counselors available.

He apparently didn't take this well, and went into a harassment way.  If she had never responded to his email?  Well....that might have reset all of these events from happening.

She apparently went through various stages, and eventually went to the cops over the harassment stuff.

The cops didn't have many laws to handle this type of mess....but they found one that labeled his actions to be a misdemeanor.

So they dragged him into a Maryland court, and the judge had his moment with the guy.  Basically, this guy was going to get counseling whether he liked it or not, and if he failed in any possible way....they'd go to another charge...which meant real jail-time.

All things considered, it was an appropriate way of handling the mess.

But, the journalists with this newspaper wandered into story, and decided to tell the whole thing....which meant this guy, with a social media problem....got his name in the news and was now publicly recognized for 'bad behavior'.

The guy then tried to sue the newspaper or suggest slander.

Well....no, said a local judge.  This is what you did, and it's a public record.

So for about four years, this has been on this guy's mind.  I'm guessing that between some type of legit drug use (maybe pain-killers).....and mental stress....he flipped and went to shoot up the journalists.

Drug-testing the guy?  I have my doubts that the cops will go and do this.  They'd prefer a nice simple case.

Going back to the need of the paper to tell this story?  If it's a public record situation....then you should have thought about that before doing some stupid harassment stuff.  He'll never walk freely again, and he'll have plenty of time to think about what he did.

As for the folks on social media who can't handle it?  I have this opinion that one-third of people on Facebook probably can't handle the situation, and ought to just give up on social media.