It's just amazing that someone convicted of a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence won't be able to purchase a firearm the following week - THAT part of the system works. But the mental competence part of the system is so fucking broken, that it can't even be managed. There were flags from this as$hole from the past. Numerous complaints from coworkers that led to him being reprimanded, and ultimately fired from this job in the news - even though he was fired 2 years ago. He was a black man with a race problem - everywhere he turned, he tried to play the race card, and the discrimination card. HE had a problem with race, and received complaints in the workplace, THEN he threw the racism and discrimination cards down. In 2000, he filed a lawsuit against the news station he was fired from in Florida. He has had a history of workplace complaints against him. He was a racist. From his "manifesto," this is what he stated about the Charleston church killings" 'As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!' he wrote in his final screed. He scratched the initials of the Charleston victims onto the bullets he fired today - THAT is fucked up. While Flanagan says the Charleston shootings were the tipping point for him, it's clear he's been unwell for some time--and he admits as much. Yeah, no kidding? He's been "unwell" for some time? No shiit. If only people had seen the signs, and the mental reporting system worked as expeditiously as the Domestic Violence reporting system...