Short version: it happened Wednesday, started to get play, and then promptly lost play when it turned out that the attacker had a more or less fake gun. It appears that this person had mental issues: “Vincente David Montano terrorized movie patrons in what looked convincingly like a theater massacre in the making, and police in Nashville, Tennessee, responded accordingly, shooting him dead.” Largely because he did in fact hit people with pepper spray, a BB gun – and much more importantly, a hatchet. And he then advanced on a SWAT team with said hatchet, and that’s pretty much when he got shot.
At some point we as a society need to decide whether we want to keep ignoring the fact that a percentage of paranoid schizophrenics won’t voluntarily keep taking their medication. I mean, I understand that most schizophrenics aren’t particularly dangerous to anybody except themselves, but there’s a percentage that is. What do we do about that?