Last year I sold my old vacuum on Nextdoor, a social networking service for neighborhoods. A stranger responded to my listing, we agreed on a price, and we arranged a place and time for making the exchange. Until recently, I could have legally sold a gun in much the same way in 29 states.
“People who knew him as a child described him as “odd” and, later, “disturbed.” Only after it happened did they use the word “scary.” As a teenager, he was picked on and teased for his sullen demeanor and his love of military gear. He lashed out, fighting with classmates and destroying property...” Continue reading
“J.P. had begun to believe that the mafia was monitoring him and that they had deployed operatives to follow him to Oregon when he moved from California. He thought a tracking chip had been implanted in his neck, that robotic birds were conducting surveillance on him, and that he was being watched through his cell phone, which he destroyed in a fit of rage.
