PSYCHONo matter what my problems, their problems or even some who may possibly deserve such a fate won't receive it anywhere but in my or their dreams or nightmares with me as the culprit or offending party again such as this man was over this past weekend.
The problem that lies within is the inability today in our society of making sure people like this known lunatic are reported, then evaluated and subsequently incarcerated or just re and re evaluated enough to make sure if not subjected to 24 hour professional observation and incarceration of sorts, they are at least monitored on a regular basis for medication issues, levels and or questions along with any other pertinent issues, as often enough as is required to make sure they are prevented from doing harm to themselves and or others around them.
So why is it when I was young (which wasn't so long ago yet seems like an eternity, 44 years old) did these things not occur as frequently if they even did at all as they do today? The only real comparative episode of such inexplicable yet explicable violence occurring in such a bizarre fashion was in August of 1966 when former Marine and otherwise indistinguishable Charles Whitman opened fire on students from Texas Tower in 1966 because of what was determined after the shooting to be an undiagnosed brain tumor.
Most often people who commit these acts are easily recognizable and treatable or if not used to be housed in places away from the rest of society where they received at least some treatment and usually could only bring harm to themselves and not innocent others as they regularly do today for one reason and one reason only.
Do gooder liberalism that grew out during the sixties of coarse (when else?) when they began to protest against the concept of involuntary commitment of mental patients as a violation of their civil rights (just like the vietnam war nuts that dominated the landscape as well who are now the insane running the asylum)that grew throughout the Carter administration and grew even more through Reagan's movement to lessen the burden of Federal government, thus shifting the fiscal issues to the states which led to the situation we now have today..
So blame them if anyone for these acts, since they are the ones that intitially demanded society stop treating and often simply warehousing the mentally ill and unstable thus enabling these poor tortured and now untreated people to regularly commit these types of acts against innocent others who have no connection nor responsibility for their condition other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
N.C. Nursing Home Shooting Suspect's Wife Worked at Facility
FOXNews.com - Local News | News Articles | National'We're certainly looking into the fact that it may be domestic-related,' McKenzie told The Associated Press.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Monday that Stewart's estranged wife is Wanda Luck, who works as a certified nurse assistant at the nursing home. Public records indicate she shared an address with Stewart in Carthage. Mark Barnett, a neighbor of Luck's parents, told the newspaper that Luck was working at the home on Sunday.
Police could not immediately confirm Luck's identity
An ex-wife of Stewart's, Sue Griffin, told reporters Sunday she had not had contact with him since they divorced in 2001 but that he had "violent tendencies." Griffin added she didn't know how her ex-husband was connected to the nursing home or why he would shoot people there.
The injured included a police officer hailed as a hero for shooting the gunman before more people could be killed.
Officials said 25-year-old Carthage Police Officer Justin Garner wounded Stewart with a single gunshot to the uppper torso while trading gunfire in a hallway. Garner himself was shot three times in the leg.
"I can’t classify it as anything other than heroic," McKenzie said. "If that’s not heroism, I don’t know what is. A lot more lives would have been lost if he hadn’t done what he did."
Griffin, Stewart's ex-wife, said Stewart had been recently reaching out to family members, telling them he had cancer and was preparing for a long trip and to "go away."
Griffin said she was married to Stewart for 15 years, and while they hadn't spoken since divorcing in 2001, he had been trying to reach her during the past week through her son, mother, sister and grandmother.
"He did have some violent tendencies from time to time," Griffin said. "I wouldn't put it past him. I hate to say it, but it is true."
Court records said Stewart was transferred from the custody of Moore County to the state Department of Correction, because he has a gunshot wound. He is not scheduled to appear in court until next week on eight counts of first-degree murder and a charge of felony assault of a law enforcement officer.
Stewart was not a patient or an employee at the nursing home and wasn't believed to be related to any of the victims, authorities said.
Families waited anxiously near the home Sunday for news of their loved one
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