Comments on: Was the NIU shooter a prohibited person?

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:24:12 +0000

It can be a General discharge.

By: Heartless Libertarian

Heartless Libertarian — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:25:48 +0000

As Boyd noted, you pretty much have to commit a felony to warrant a Dishonorable Discharge, which would mean he would have done time at the Disciplinary Barracks in Ft Leavenworth.

A psych discharge is pretty much like a medical discharge. I don’t recall if its legally an Honorable or Uncharacterized.

And I think the ‘voluntary’ commitment was done by his parents, when he was a minor. Which, I believe, legally makes it a non-entity.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:25:19 +0000

If memory serves, even voluntary commitment makes you a prohibited person for 5 years in IL. At least, that’s what they told an acquaintance of mine who had been institutionalized for less than a week after a suicide attempt.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:13:17 +0000

The Army discharge angle is highly unlikely. In my military experience, no one who received a Big Chicken Dinner (Bad Conduct Discharge, one level up from Dishonorable) got out without doing extensive time in a military prison. I can’t imagine a Dishonorable Discharge would be the end result of someone washing out of the Army in six months. He’d have to have been in longer, if only to serve his sentence.

Anything is possible, of course.

By: Jim W

Jim W — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:56:33 +0000

I know what you’re thinking- he murdered 5 people and then painted the ceiling with his brains, but does the man have a dark side? We think some faults would make him seem more human.