{"id":62246,"date":"2015-10-09T07:57:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62246"},"modified":"2015-10-08T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:05:07","slug":"oregon-shooter-was-discharged-from-the-army-for-being-suicidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62246","title":{"rendered":"Oregon shooter was discharged from the Army for being suicidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/article\/accused-oregon-shooter-was-discharged-from-army-after-attempting-suicide-20151007-01139\">NASDAQ reporting for the Dow Jones Business News<\/a> says that the fellow who shot the people at the community college in Oregon last week had been discharged from the Army because he was suicidal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The details of the suicide attempt haven&#8217;t been made public. But it is the latest indication that [&#8230;]\u2014described by former friends and neighbors as a disaffected loner who loved firearms and disliked religion\u2014had been deeply troubled long before opening fire on fellow students and a teacher in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>The Army discharge didn&#8217;t affect [&#8230;]&#8217;s ability to legally purchase firearms. He didn&#8217;t receive a dishonorable discharge, which would have required a court-martial, according to an Army spokesman. Because he didn&#8217;t have that type of discharge, often deemed equivalent to a felony, he wasn&#8217;t precluded from buying guns under existing federal law.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of his administrative separation is protected by privacy laws, and an Army spokesman said it could have been for a wide variety of reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m not sure who is to blame here. Maybe the Department of Defense needs some sort of special dispensation to add these people&#8217;s name to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) if they put them out on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASDAQ reporting for the Dow Jones Business News says that the fellow who shot the people &hellip; <a title=\"Oregon shooter was discharged from the Army for being suicidal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62246\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oregon shooter was discharged from the Army for being suicidal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}