Modern society is unable to recognize that evil exists and that humans commit evil acts. They need to have something to blame violence and crime on, other than humans. Thus liberals blame guns. Conservatives blame mental illness. There is no causal connection between a psychiatric diagnosis and crime or violence. But that does not prevent police, politicians, lawyers, journalists from relentless repetition of their fantastic belief. It makes them feel good. They are fighting to stop crime and violence. But using their misguided standard will never end crime or violence. They all refuse to look under the rock where evil hides. So thousands of innocent harmless people continue to be targeted, demonized and abused due to paranoid rage of police, courts, journalists because of their worship of the pharmaceutical and the psychiatric industries and "the human services industrial complex" (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's term.) How is this any different from the witch mongers during the Inquisition? Not very much.
[From article]
Metro Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron said police had not uncovered a motive, but he said Montano had been committed for psychiatric treatment at least four times, twice in 2004 and twice in 2007.
Psychiatry with the hoods
"This individual has had significant psychiatric or psychological issues," he said.
He also noted that Montano had been arrested in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 2004 for assault and resisting arrest, and said he was reported as a missing person to the Murfreesboro police department on Monday.
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Metro Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said violence like Wednesday's shooting are likely to happen "anywhere we gather," then added: "This is maybe what we call the new normal. We can't say we're not going to theaters, we can't say we're not going to church. We carry on."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_THEATER_SHOOTING_TENNESSEE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-05-20-45-36
Aug 5, 10:12 PM EDT
MAN WIELDING PELLET GUN, AX, ATTACKS THEATER; SHOT BY POLICE
BY ERIK SCHELZIG AND KRISTIN M. HALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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[From article]
Police released an image of Vincente David Montano, 29, who was holding an Airsoft replica pistol when he attacked a mostly empty screening at the Carmike Hickory 8 theater around 1pm Wednesday.
Officers say he let off huge amounts of red-tinted tear gas and slashed a man with his axe.
Montano, who was wearing a surgical mask in the attack, was shot dead when he tried to leave via a back entrance.
Terrified moviegoers thought Montano's gun was real, and called in police, one of whom reportedly had a brief firefight with him.
Moments later he is said to have tried to escape the theater, where he was gunned down by a SWAT team just outside an emergency exit.
Officers said Montao was wearing two backpacks during the attack, one of which had a replica bomb inside - which disposal experts destroyed.
Police later revealed that Montano had a history of mental illness, including paranoid schizophrenia, and had been committed four times.
A spokesman for the Nashville Metro Police Department said he suffered 'significant psychiatric or psychological issues' and had been arrested in 2004 for assault and resisting arrest.
Police said that Montano's mother, Denise Pruit, filed a missing persons report with Texas rangers two days ago. She hadn't seen Montano in person since 2013.
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When he got outside, he was gunned down by officers from a SWAT team.
Officers then walked into the theater to search the scene and were forced to wear gas masks because the air was so thick with pepper spray.
In a second briefing on Wednesday evening, Antioch police chief Steve Anderson said that there were only eight people in the screening of Mad Max when the man began his attack.
Anderson said three officers went to the theater and were preparing to engage the man when the SWAT team arrived and took over.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3186326/Police-shut-Nashville-movie-theater-suspect-armed-gun-hatchet-opens-fire-screening-Mad-Max.html
Mad Max cinema gunman, 29, who attacked audience with a hatchet and pepper spray before being shot dead outside - as police reveal he was also carrying a pellet gun and fake bomb
Police identified Vincente David Montano, 29, as theater assailant
Attacked Mad Max screening in Antioch, Tennessee, on Wednesday
Had realistic-looking Airsoft pistol, as well as an axe and pepper spray
Slashed a man's shoulder and doused theater with the irritant chemical
Officers confronted Montano inside then backed off while SWAT arrived
He was shot just outside the theater and his body taken from the scene
Police said that he had two backpacks, one with a fake bomb inside
Comes just two weeks after a deadly shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana
By Wills Robinson and Kieran Corcoran For Dailymail.com
Published: 14:25 EST, 5 August 2015 | Updated: 12:02 EST, 6 August 2015
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