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bemused_leftisthttp://www.cinchreview.com/finally-a-fact-jared-loughner-and-the-tucson-shooting/2023/
Arizona allows for family, friends or even acquaintances to petition a local court for a mental evaluation, said Suzanne Hodges, chief compliant officer at the Community Partnership of Southern Arizona, the group that provides mental health treatment for Pima County, where the shooting occurred. The court would have then sent someone to interview Loughner and determine if he needed treatment — even if he was not an imminent danger to himself or others, as most other states require.
Being in such treatment would have prevented him from purchasing a handgun, according to Arizona’s gun laws.
Arizona allows for family, friends or even acquaintances to petition a local court for a mental evaluation, said Suzanne Hodges, chief compliant officer at the Community Partnership of Southern Arizona, the group that provides mental health treatment for Pima County, where the shooting occurred. The court would have then sent someone to interview Loughner and determine if he needed treatment — even if he was not an imminent danger to himself or others, as most other states require.
Being in such treatment would have prevented him from purchasing a handgun, according to Arizona’s gun laws.
