(John Hinderaker) John Russell Houser, the "drifter" who murdered two and wounded several more in a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, was crazy as a loon. That isn't unusual in such cases, but what is unusual is that Houser was involuntarily committed to a mental institution in 2008. That fact should have prevented him from buying the gun that he used to commit murder, but the federal government's NICS system failed. The
Source: Power Line