Suspect in Louisiana theater shooting had history of mental illness

John R. Houser, who had a history of mental illness and railed against the U.S. government online, opened fire with a .40 caliber handgun about 20 minutes into the comedy film “Trainwreck,”

White? check wierdo? Check paranoia against govt? Check gun nut? Check violent? Check.

Gee, I wonder what political party he likes. Maybe we should profile...

This psycho would never be able to get a gun in Japan or any other civilized nation with reasonable gun control laws. Thank you once again NRA for another needless gun tragedy.

US media outlets should simply start a running feature called "Mass Shooting of the Day." The NRA could sponsor it.

Another day, another shooting in the US. While it's good citizens wring their hands and wail and do nothing, the rest of the world is screaming 'Why don't you reform your gun laws, you stupid bastards!'

If you listen you can hear us.

“This just shows these senseless acts of violence can literally happen anywhere.”

Anywhere in the US.

'Obama had told the BBC in an interview aired on Thursday before the shooting that his biggest frustration was the failure to pass “common-sense gun safety laws.”

When normal people hear their leader say I want commonsense gun laws, they think 'well, duh, of course we all do'. When the US right here that, they start rattling the bars of their cages and screaming that this socialist isn't gonna take away their guns. Common sense? Try another approach.

Another day, another shooting in the US. While it's good citizens wring their hands and wail and do nothing, the rest of the world is screaming 'Why don't you reform your gun laws, you stupid bastards!'

The stupid ones must think that perpetrators with a record of felonies and history of mental illness intent on suicide are going to obey the law when it comes to guns.

“This just shows these senseless acts of violence can literally happen anywhere.”

Yes, anywhere in the US, and can go from one guy who can do a limited amount of damage to someone who can do UNLIMITED about of damage thanks to the access to guns -- and access to guns to the mentally unfit as well, evidently.

We'll be reading about the next one by Monday. And it won't be "anywhere" outside of the US.

The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Of course liberals will use any tragedy to attempt to disarm the American people, but thankfully the Supreme Court has ruled time and time again in favor the 2nd amendment. Sorry guys, but just like bigots upset about gay marriage, you'll just have to 'deal with it'.

Why isn't this being called terrorism? Oh, I see, he is White and didn't scream "Allahu Akbar". So his problems with the government get swept aside, and his history of being mental takes center stage.

And the guy may have been nuts, but his problems with the U.S. government hardly does anything to prove that. If your brain works at all you should have several problems with the U.S. government, and the fact that you cannot do anything about any of it may well drive you nuts!

"He was a drifter."

Those were the exact same words the couple who owned the Texas Book Depository used in their description to my father about Lee Harvey Oswald. Nothing more, nothing less. Just another lone nut who wanted to be noticed.

In America, people should be more worried about other Americans than ISIS. I am not that old at all and I can remember a time just 15 years ago when my grandmother rarely locked her doors, my friends and I could leave our bikes outside all night, and now there are mass shootings a week, daily, and I can't watch a movie in a theatre anymore without looking at every new person who comes in thinking they may open fire on all of us.

People still refused gun control after children were gunned down in an elementary school and called for "crazy control" instead, but mental health facilities were closed and prisons were expanded. The US now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. And for what end?

Since 1927 there have been around 153 school shootings in the US. In 82 years you had 74. In the past 7 years you have had 79 incidents.

When a person runs onto the field/court of a professional sporting event, the cameras immediately pan to the crowd, the broadcasters, or anywhere else in the stadium. This happens for two reasons:

1) They don't want to reward the idiot with camera time, and..

2) They don't want to encourage copycats.

Why does the same logic not get applied to these mass shootings? These monsters don't need to leave a manifesto, the media will do it for them. Within a few days we'll know every detail of this pathetic loser's life. Why not focus on the victims instead?

'The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Of course liberals will use any tragedy to attempt to disarm the American people'

It never ceases to amaze me just how breezily the gun-lovers dismiss innocent people being killed. I suppose people should stop being so sentimental and as you put it, 'deal with it'.

Heh-heh. . . . when this happens in Crip/Blood ghettos and "hoods" on a daily basis, nobody says a damm thang' -- Oh wait, but suddenly it's a white male (lone wolf) shooter. Next thing you know, it's a free-for-all on americans and their gun problem. Get used to it.

'The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Of course liberals will use any tragedy to attempt to disarm the American people'

Jimizo it never ceases to amaze me how gun fetishists immediately interpret any suggestion of gun control as "an attempt to disarm the American people".

Motor vehicles are more regulated than firearms, and everybody and their uncle has one. But if we suggest anything remotely like motor vehicle regulations, such as licensing and registration, we get this chant about taking away their guns. Gun fetishists are just not right in the head.

Motor vehicles are more regulated than firearms,

Debatable, the manufacturing and selling of firearms is more regulated then the manufacturing and selling of cars in a lot of ways when compared to cars.

You do realize that the reason why you register your vehicle is to generate tax income, not for safety reasons or crime fighting reasons. In fact there is very little evidence to support the argument that car registries are a cost effective way to fight crime, especially motor vehicle crimes or make people drive safer; there is very little evidence that the sex offender registry does anything to reduce sexual assaults, in fact some states like California are now seriously thinking about repealing the sex offender registry as it is just a money sinkhole. If registries were as effective as people claim they are then we would have had a DNA registry a long time ago of every person born a long time ago.

With that being said I do agree that the chant of they are taking away our guns any time some very tiny law is change regarding firearms is tiresome.

Gee, I wonder what political party he likes. Maybe we should profile..

He supported president Obama. Obviously not your average Tea Partier the media was making it out to be....

Here we go again, with all the "the rest of the world is soooooooo civilized because we ban guns but the USA is so terrible because gun laws are broken/non-existent/not strong enough so let's blame the NRA" blah, blah, blah. (Did we fail to realize that the person that did the Charleston Church shooting actually WAS background checked but somebody dropped the ball in his case?)

I just wish that --- for ONCE --- we could just mourn the loss of people who were MURDERED while doing something innocent without politicizing it. Japan has its problems; Korea has its problems; America has its problems...and so does each and every other nation on the face of the earth. Blaming the NRA for this shooting is just as absurd as blaming the CSA Battle Flag for the Charleston Massacre. Saying the liberals always jump on a tragedy and politicize it is just as constructive as saying "Japan has a suicide problem". Let's just mourn the dead, pray for their families, and leave off the political diatribe...

STUPID QUOTE OF THE DAY (AND MAYBE WEEK AD MONTH) - All the horrible things done since 9/11 in the name of fighting terrorism, and the U.S. still can't protect its citizens against home-grown, white terrorism. Joeintokyo - JUL. 25, 2015 - 09:29AM JST

A political conservative who joined the Tea Party, Houser was described as a “gadfly” who voiced his views on talk radio and ran for local political office.

Rightwing radio and fox news scores another kook who kills. Seems to me that those that support racial profiling should support Idiot profiling as well. If you watch fox news every day you need to be a watch list.

And Lizz, he was not a supporter of Obama. He was indeed a typical tea party loon who believed in anarchy basically and will use guns to kill to make a statement about freedom. Not much different from Roof in South Carolina except he was driven more by racism than freedom. And racism of course is yet another aspect of the all white tea party.

Here we go again, with all the "the rest of the world is soooooooo civilized because we ban guns but the USA is so terrible because gun laws are broken/non-existent/not strong enough so let's blame the NRA" blah, blah, blah.

In case you didn't notice, we don't have this problem in other countries.

(Did we fail to realize that the person that did the Charleston Church shooting actually WAS background checked but somebody dropped the ball in his case?)

Which just goes to show how the idea that background checks are enough is a flawed idea.

I just wish that --- for ONCE --- we could just mourn the loss of people who were MURDERED while doing something innocent without politicizing it.

What do you think we are doing when we criticize American gun laws? If we didn't care about the people who got killed, we wouldn't care about the gun laws either. It's in these people's names that we are criticizing the laws.

Japan has its problems; Korea has its problems; America has its problems...and so does each and every other nation on the face of the earth.

But not this problem. It's an America problem.

Blaming the NRA for this shooting is just as absurd as blaming the CSA Battle Flag for the Charleston Massacre.

No it's not. They have lobbyists and spend millions and millions of dollars, placing pressure on politicians, to ensure that the laws are not fixed. They play a major part in why these atrocities keep happening over and over and over.

we could just mourn the loss of people who were MURDERED while doing something innocent without politicizing it

What a silly thing to write. They are dead because gun laws have been gutted by the NRA and their puppets. Louisiana has the weakest gun laws in the USA and no surprise the highest rate of gun deaths in the USA as well. It is that simple.

Guns are political for NRA loons when they want to gut gun laws but when those gutted laws result in deaths then magically guns are not political? Can NRA gun hypocrisy be any clearer than that?

Japan does not have this problem because Japan has strict gun laws. Again, it is that simple. Australia stiffened its gun laws after a horrific gun shooting and now gun deaths are reduced and there has been no repeat of the former gun massacre. These are the simple facts without the NRA spin and lies. The NRA cares only about one thing, selling more guns. They do not care about who gets killed by guns. No one bit.

In case you didn't notice, we don't have this problem in other countries.

Tell that to the victims' families in Germany, Norway, Osaka, Sasebo, Nagasaki, and Akihabara.

Which just goes to show how the idea that background checks are enough is a flawed idea.

Yet, this is a heavy, heavy push by the vast majority of Democrats in the USA for even deeper checks...yet the ones we have aren't followed through. Sounds as logical as having more immigration laws when we don't enforce the ones we already have on the books....

What do you think we are doing when we criticize American gun laws? If we didn't care about the people who got killed, we wouldn't care about the gun laws either. It's in these people's names that we are criticizing the laws.

Politicizing. Period. Didn't hear anyone demand greater knife/rental truck sanctions when the tragedies in Sasebo, Osaka and Akihabara happened. Didn't hear anyone call for greater gun controls when Nagasaki's mayor was murdered by a gunman. Heard naught but silence when a German man massacred classmates and friends with a firearm and when the Norway gun massacre happened. And I STILL haven't heard anything about positive, meaningful steps taken or to be taken to curb Japan's astronomical suicide rate (windows on train platforms? How's that working out?) or skyrocketing violence among youth (even a day off from school in the week is being revoked in a lot of prefectures). But let a tragedy like this happen in the USA, and all you-know-where breaks loose. Call it what you wish, but this is naught but politicizing...

But not this problem. It's an America problem.

Again, Tell that to the victims' families in Germany, Norway, Osaka, Sasebo, Nagasaki, and Akihabara....

No it's not. They have lobbyists and spend millions and millions of dollars, placing pressure on politicians, to ensure that the laws are not fixed. They play a major part in why these atrocities keep happening over and over and over. ---Strangerland - JUL. 25, 2015 - 12:51PM JST

And yet, the History of the Southeastern USA is being erased and whitewashed [no pun intended] (yet, vendors and stores can gleefully still sell Nazi German merchandise, Stalinist USSR relics, the "iconic" Che Guevara T-shirt, make ISIS/ISIL-themed cakes, et al ad nauseam) because similar pressure is being placed on politicians (all because of a messed-up and entirely false view of a flag used in battle by men and women who took it upon themselves to defend their families against an encroaching Federal Government) and that's just fine and dandy? And for every Dylan Roof story we see in the news, there are a thousand where an armed citizen defends him/herself against a terrorist, criminal thug that go unreported (that the NRA DOES report). Call it what you wish, Strangerland, but lobbying is a double-edged sword that the Democrats use just as much (if not more-so) than you say the NRA and "right wing" do.

Tell that to the victims' families in Germany, Norway, Osaka, Sasebo, Nagasaki, and Akihabara.

Sorry, which of these cities/countries have mass shootings every week? Sometimes even twice a week? If you think that this is a problem faced by the countries/cities you listed above, you are absolutely clueless. One incident does not a problem make. One incident a week does.

Didn't hear anyone demand greater knife/rental truck sanctions when the tragedies in Sasebo, Osaka and Akihabara happened.

If trucks disappear, society collapses. If knives disappear, people cannot cook. If guns disappear, people get to continue living.

Got any more apples you'd like to compare with orange one-celled organisms that live on other planets?

Didn't hear anyone call for greater gun controls when Nagasaki's mayor was murdered by a gunman.

Do you really want me to dig out the gun statistics for Japan? I will if you'd like. But they are proof that gun control works in Japan. People didn't call for greater gun control laws, because the laws already work extremely well here. Just let me know if you'd like me to dig up the statistics though, I'm happy to parade them out for all to see.

I STILL haven't heard anything about positive, meaningful steps taken or to be taken to curb Japan's astronomical suicide rate

What does this have to do with a(nother) shooting in America? Entirely irrelevant.

Again, Tell that to the victims' families in Germany, Norway, Osaka, Sasebo, Nagasaki, and Akihabara....

And again, tell me which of these countries/cities has mass shootings every week.

You sound very upset about the criticism of the US for being gunville. If you don't like that criticism, maybe your country should stop giving people ammo (pun intended) with which to criticize.

Have a Great weekend, Strangerland!

Thank you for taking the time to reply!

Well that was most definitely not the response I was expecting! But thanks, you too.

And Lizz, he was not a supporter of Obama

Were you in his head at the time as well ?

The man was an outspoken conservative who supported the re-election of Obama because the president was hastening the decline of this country in a way that Houser compared to OK City bomber Tim McVeigh and obviously viewed quite favorably.

It was in his manifesto (and now in the police report).

I think this is just showing that the USA needs to tighten up its gun laws, IE every person before he or she purchases a gun has to have a medical back ground screen before he/she is allowed to purchase a gun, and every 5 years they should have another check to make sure things have not changed. just think how many of these random shootings are undertaken by people that have psychiatric, or mental health issues, if the government had introduced this, how many of these shooting would have been prevented?

If you listen you can hear us.

In space no one can hear you scream.

Suspect in Louisiana theater shooting had history of mental illness

99.9% of these killings are failed psych cases, in the middle of psych "treatment," or on psych drugs.

It's time the REAL source of the problem was realised.

The US does not have gun control because of the gun lobby,the NRA being the most powerful being the NRA. The blood of this right-wing psycho's murders are on the hands of the NRA leaders and its members, all 4 million of them.

I think this is just showing that the USA needs to tighten up its gun laws, IE every person before he or she purchases a gun has to have a medical back ground screen before he/she is allowed to purchase a gun,

There is a federal background check system, which was intended to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, drug users and mentally ill people. but the federal authorities still do not have a seamless way of examining Americans’ criminal histories that eliminates human error and lax state laws. The Charleston killer bought the gun at a store but bureaucratic mistakes by the FBI and others prevented existing laws from working and blocking an illegal gun sale, the Chattanooga killer went through a private (unregulated) web site, Houser obtained his at a licensed pawn shop and still apparently wasn't flagged for prior crimes or being in crisis.(didn't have a court ordered mental health diagnosis).

I agree if most mass murderers are getting firearms legally there needs to be a less haphazard way of trying to identify who might be too dangerous to own a gun.

In case you didn't notice, we don't have this problem in other countries.

Well Canada seems to be having a similar problem for the past couple of years, they have had a recent spike of mass shootings, domestic and public for the past couple of years it seems.

That begs the question does the fact that other countries don't have this problem, mass shootings, mean the USA is then obligated to follow those other countries in passing similar laws? And how severe is the problem in the first place? Mass shootings currently make up around 0.01-0.02 per 100,000 homicide rate, is a 0.01 or a 0.02 per 100,000 homicide rate by mass shootings really that bad?

Take for example Cars, the USA has much high death rate from cars, especially when compared to the UK and Western Europe, is the USA obligated to pass similar restrictions on getting a drivers license as them?

Another example: The south eastern states of the USA have much stricter alcohol laws and have lower rates of Alcohol death when compared to the rest of the nation, is the rest of the nation, heck other countries, obligated to follow south eastern states of the USA in passing similar laws to bring down their alcohol death rate?

Needle's stuck in the same old record.

the USA has much high death rate from cars

taken on a deaths per billion km basis, it's the same as Spain and sedate Slovenia. Statistically you are safer on the roads in the USA than in Belgium, Japan or New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

Previously we've even had drownings in bathtubs presented to show how statistically unextraordinary gun deaths are. How many people ever bought a bathtub or automobile to be able to kill someone?

It speaks volumes that the gun lobby is singularly unable to give an articulate defence of their hobby

She said her husband was on daily medications for manic-depression and bipolar disorder at the time. -this is a common thread among many of these shooters.

Again, where is the "Doctor" that prescribed these medications and why is he not taking any responsibility for his patient ??

Difference between Psychologist and Psychiatrist (med school Dr.)

Psychologists in the United States have campaigned for legislation changes to enable specially trained psychologists to prescribe psychiatric medicine. New legislation in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Illinois has granted those who take an additional masters program in psychopharmacology permission to prescribe medications for mental and emotional disorders in co-ordination with the patient's physician. Louisiana was the second state to provide such legislation.[28] This legislation has not come without considerable controversy. As of 2009, Louisiana is the only of the United States where the licensing and regulation of the practice of psychology by medical psychologists who prescribe medications is regulated by a medical board (i.e., the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners) rather than a board of psychologists.[29] While other states have pursued prescriptive privileges, they have yet to be successful. Similar legislation in the states of Hawaii and Oregon passed through the legislative House and Senate but it was vetoed by the Governor.[28]

the re-election of Obama because the president was hastening the decline of this country in a way that Houser compared to OK City bomber Tim McVeigh and obviously viewed quite favorably.

Do I need to explain this statement regarding support for Obama, linked to support for McVeigh? Fox news must be saying that Houser was an Obama supporter. That is the only explanation for this being repeated on JT by the dittoheads.

@DaDude. Correct. And what do these non-americans think will happen? LoL, the ATF, along with every city/state/local Law Enforcement, will serve warrants across the w-h-o-l-e entire US to seize guns? Nice try. Especially from generations of law abiding citizens? Not!

Fox news must be saying that Houser was an Obama supporter.

A vote is a vote. I never said it was for the purest of motives. It is perfectly obvious Houser wanted Obama reelected so that extremist whites would rise up and overthrow the government.

His words in full: "I accepted this it came to me that the president is doing exactly what Tim McVeigh did,only the president is much more effective.The way I see it,the faster he wrecks this nation, which in no way resembles what it’s founders envisioned,the faster working people with morals may re-assume command.ie I was for his re-election. I like his spending habits.etc"

I guess if we remove private ownership of guns in USA the mental illness and jihadists will go vanish. Seems like the opinion of the drones anyway.

Next- axes and knives.

After that- pressure cookers lighters.

Soon- everyone will be sane and safe.

Needle's stuck in the same old record. taken on a deaths per billion km basis, it's the same as Spain and sedate Slovenia. Statistically you are safer on the roads in the USA than in Belgium, Japan or New Zealand.

Right which is why I said when compared to the UK and western Europe, at least most of western Europe. Statistically you are safer on the roads in the UK, Canada, France, Australia, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway when compared to the USA.

So is the USA obligated to pass the same driving requirement as say Denmark or Norway?

Previously we've even had drownings in bathtubs presented to show how statistically unextraordinary gun deaths are. How many people ever bought a bathtub or automobile to be able to kill some

That is beside the point/question I'm asking. The question I'm asking is if something is shown to have this effect is a country or a population or a state or whatever obligated to do the same thing, especially if it is shown to reduce deaths?

Also if the goal is a public health issue/is to save lives it is irrelevant if something is designed to kill or not seeing as a premature preventable death is a premature preventable death regardless of the circumstances. Also do you think it helps your argument that something that is not purchased/designed to kill people is killing just as many people if not more people as something that is claimed to be primarily purchased for the purpose of maliciously killing people?

The medication was not only ineffective, it may have created the problem in the first place.

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Didn't hear anyone demand greater knife/rental truck sanctions when the tragedies in Sasebo, Osaka and Akihabara happened.

Jason Lovelace, maybe you should pay more attention then?

Almost immediately after the Akihabara incident, more knife restrictions were created and went into effect less than a year after the incident. One poor old American tourist was arrested on the basis of the new restrictions three days before they actually went into effect, which goes to show the overbearing police response to the incident.

Now, the funny thing is that I am totally with you in being against over-reactions to isolated incidents. In no way do I approve of the new knife restrictions in Japan which are based on the actions of one single nutter.

However, this latest American gun massacre is a pretty freaking far cry from an isolated incident. Surely you can realize that? Or are you just hell bent to twist this any way you can?

However, this latest American gun massacre is a pretty freaking far cry from an isolated incident. Surely you can realize that? Or are you just hell bent to twist this any way you can?

How do you define isolated incident? The issue with having a population the size of the USA is that very rare events will give the appearance they are very common when in fact they are rare when compared to the size of the population. Mass shootings make up around 0.02 to as high as 0.05 per 100,000 homicide rate, which means if you used the FBI/Australia formula of a mass shooting being 4 or more people being killed in a single incident that would equal to around 38 incidents in the USA or basically one every one and half weeks but that is still ~152 people being killed out of 310 million or 0.000049% or to put it another way four one-hundredth and ninety thousandth of one percent of the population is killed annually in mass shootings. That is an incredibly small number,

To further put that into perspective the mass shooting homicide rate of the USA is one sixth the overall homicide rate of Japan, you are six times more likely to be murdered in Japan than you are to be killed in a mass shooting incident in the USA.

So in a population the size of around 310+ million people what frequency do we consider an isolated incident?

How do you define isolated incident?

Differently from you apparently, Noliving. Rarity does disprove a connection between events. These people who grab a gun and start shooting innocent people they never even met is not something that each perpetrator thought of independently. Its obvious they are inspiring each other. Its also obvious it need not even be mass shootings inspiring individual shootings. Both inspire the other.

And one of the many reasons its happening is clear to anyone with half a brain who decides to argue this honestly; its because America has decided to ignore the examples of other countries who have made their citizens safe with gun restrictions even while still maintaining a well armed populace.

Differently from you apparently, Noliving. Rarity does disprove a connection between events. These people who grab a gun and start shooting innocent people they never even met is not something that each perpetrator thought of independently. Its obvious they are inspiring each other. Its also obvious it need not even be mass shootings inspiring individual shootings. Both inspire the other.

You didn't answer the question, what is the number/frequency that we should consider isolated in a nation that is over 310+ million people?

To put it another way there is around 38 people each year out of 310 million that will commit an act of mass homicide each year in the USA. That is extremely rare when considering the size of the population. Yes there is some evidence to suggest as much as 20 or even as high as 30% of all mass shootings in the USA are copycats.

And one of the many reasons its happening is clear to anyone with half a brain who decides to argue this honestly; its because America has decided to ignore the examples of other countries who have made their citizens safe with gun restrictions even while still maintaining a well armed populace.

Is it wrong for Americans to say ~152 people each year is an acceptable cost?

Here maybe you can answer the question I asked SenseNotSoCommon:

Is a country or a state, or a city or a population or whatever obligated to pass similar laws/rules/restrictions when another country or state or city or a population passes a law/rule/restriction that has some type of impact, especially if it reduces deaths?

You didn't answer the question

You asked the wrong question and answering it would be a waste of our time.

Is a country or a state, or a city or a population or whatever obligated to pass similar laws/rules/restrictions when another country or state or city or a population passes a law/rule/restriction that has some type of impact, especially if it reduces deaths?

This is just another mistaken question!

The obligation of governments is to do what is best for its citizens even if that means copying others. Its not about what others do. Its about principles. And if others prove principles true, well so be it.

You asked the wrong question and answering it would be a waste of our time.

No I'm not asking the wrong question, I am asking for a nation that has a population of 310+ million people what is considered an isolated frequency? You said you were defining isolated different from me, I am asking you how you define isolated?

This is just another mistaken question! The obligation of governments is to do what is best for its citizens even if that means copying others. Its not about what others do. Its about principles. And if others prove principles true, well so be it.

No it is not a mistaken question, you said the USA has decided to ignore other countries examples, so is the USA obligated then to do as those other nations? Which principles?

Here let me put it to you this way, USA raised the minimum drinking age to 21 and the result is thousands of lives saved. Is the rest of the world obligated to raise their minimum drinking age laws to 21?

"A 59-year-old man who had been committed to a hospital for psychiatric care was identified by authorities on Friday as the gunman" - article

Thanks goodness there are laws that guaranteed John R. Houser's right to access guns to protect him from those who threatened his rights.

Apparently that included everyone.

The Second Amendment to the rescue again. Mr. Houser's well regulated Militia membership must have been with the 'kill as many as you can' Militia. The free State necessity was upheld and no one can argue Mr. Houser wasn't a patriot when the innocent movie goers threatened the freedoms thousands have died for.

Well done America, defending freedom till there's no one left to threaten it. Mr. Houser, another poster child for freedom.