Theater gunman built reputation as an angry provocateur

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Posted: Saturday, July 25, 2015 4:46 pm
Associated Press
In 2014, facing eviction from his Alabama home, John Russell Houser set out to make sure no one else could ever live in that house. He poured concrete down the drains and cemented the fuse box shut. He splattered paint and human waste all over the walls ... In April 2001, the LaGrange mayor and city council voted to revoke all of Houser's alcoholic beverage pouring licenses based on five convictions of selling alcohol to minors in the span of a year from 1999 to 2000, according to a court filing. Houser appealed, but the court found the mayor and council acted correctly. Houser put up the swastika banner in protest, according to an April 28, 2001, story in the LaGrange Daily News ... Houser was vehemently opposed to the upcoming marriage of his daughter. A judge had Houser committed, but the man told his wife he would continue trying to stop the wedding and his "threatening behavior" once he got out of the hospital ..
http://www.journalnow.com/news/nation_world/theater-gunman-built-reputation-as-an-angry-provocateur/article_dc88e962-8fb1-5981-bdfd-bc4cd899a674.html

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1. Tipsters help police assemble portrait of La. theater shooter

By Rebecca Santana
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JULY 25, 2015

... Interviews with people who knew Houser revealed that he was a deeply troubled person who flew a large Confederate flag outside his home and a Nazi swastika outside a bar he owned. He frequently railed against women and liberals, and what he saw as changes for the worse in society. He also put ‘‘doomsday’’ fliers in his neighbors’ mailboxes, urging them to pool resources for the coming global economic collapse, said Rick Chancey, a former neighbor ... Houser’s family said he had a history of ‘‘manic depression and/or bipolar disorder’’ as they persuaded a judge that he needed mental health treatment in 2008 ... Filing for divorce in March, his estranged wife, Kellie Houser, said he lashed out at her, asked for money, and said, ‘‘I’d better watch out because he always wins’’ ...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/07/25/tipsters-help-police-assemble-portrait-theater-shooter/P0gpMXY9upY24FBrqJgA3O/story.html

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4. Sounds no different than the TeaParty Republicans I battle online nearly every day.

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2. Anger seems to promote bad results. Maybe we could stop those who have anger issues from possessing

Guns.

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3. Anyone found his Freeper handle yet?

You know he had to have had one.