http://nyp.st/2Eto6vY
This article discusses how Trump recently stopped a law that would have required people getting SSI for mental health issues to be reported so they couldn't buy guns.
That's accurate.. sea-change from nYP, eh?
However Paddock was careful not to 'have' a mental health diagnosis..his doctor thought he might have suffered from a bi-polar illness but paddock resisted treatment.
He had already lost his pilot's licence because he had failed his eye tests..
He also had a known aversion to psychotropic meds and refused to take them..
Cruz had lost his mother, his girlfriend and according to police reports stated the 'voices' told him to carry out the school shooting.
He was described by his defender as being borderline autistic (NYT report from earlier today)
He had been attending therapy but not recently.
There is no record that Paddock sough such help for himself.
the debate now re Cruz is whether they can execute a mentally ill person.. and his defence has not yet decided they are going the route of mental illness..
Cruz was ostracised, Paddock was not..
Cruz survived, Paddock killed himself. Or was killed..
Paddock's estimated time of death remains a mystery..
his means of death, not so much.
His means of death, intra-oral- is more likely to be self induced than death by cop who would have been within their rights to take him out with a head -shot- believing him to be a terrorist.
But it is unlikely they would have shot him intra-orally..