Read this and tell me - If you were Travis Reinking's parent(s)
would you have returned guns to him.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/04/29/waffle-house-shooting-hero-james-shaw-travis-reinking/544330002/
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A history of red flags didn't keep guns out of hands of Waffle House shooting suspect
Reinking had been having delusions since 2014, his parents told local police.
He scaled the side of a building to a rooftop on a spring night in his hometown two years ago, saying Taylor Swift had hacked into his Netflix account and told him to meet her at the local Dairy Queen.
A year later, he threatened an employee at his father's crane company with an AR-15, then drove to a public pool. There he dove into the water wearing only a woman's pink housecoat, exposing himself to lifeguards.
A couple of months after that, he pulled his blue Mitsubishi alongside a Tazewell County Sheriff's patrol car and told the sergeant that people were "tapping into his computer and phone," and barking like dogs outside his home.
Throughout it all, documented in reports by law enforcement, officers attempted to get Reinking help.
The Tazewell County Sheriff's Office took Reinking into protective custody in a CVS parking lot in May 2016 after Reinking’s family told police he made suicidal comments and had access to "many firearms at his residence.”
Reinking was transported to a local hospital for evaluation, but it's unknown how long he spent there or what the result of any evaluation was.
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After he jumped into the pool last June, an AR-15 locked in his trunk, the sheriff called Reinking’s father, who was out of state.
The elder Reinking told the deputy that he had taken Reinking's guns away awhile back "when Travis was having problems." The father returned the guns to his son when he wanted to move out of state.
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The main issue with this, the thing that really pisses me off to no end, is the enabling that went on prior to the murders. His parents, the cops, anyone who had anything to do with him and didn't take action bears some responsibility in this. 
