This started as a twitter thread in March of 2018. It remains a case study of all of the failures underlying gun harm.
After his family died, he threatened to kill himself. So the police took his guns.
⬆️ Washington Post article that inspired this. Read it first.
Let’s start with career: a police officer. He seems like he was as pro-social as a cop can be, but two aspects of personality are drawn to law enforcement: a need for control, and authoritarian thinking. These two traits tend to lead to dysfunctional behavior.