The taxidriver who killed 12 people was a thief who could have been refused a firearms licence

Derrick Bird was a convicted thief. Police could have turn down the firearms licence he had. He used his legally held guns to murder 12 people and wound 11 in Cumbria on Wednesday before his suicide. In the past Bird had a 12-month suspended jail verdict because of a theft in 1990. This theft led to his termination of employment. Unfortunately, this did not stop him from having a shotgun licence since 1995. Cambria Police last visited Bird in 2007 when he was getting another licence for a .22 gun. The same rifle and shotgun were used in the massacre, last Wednesday.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7143834.ece

My reaction:
I read the article about these terrible murders in a newspaper in Holland. Immediately I found this man sick. How could you do something like this? Shoot at innocent people that are just walking on the street. Those people are insane. The thing is that nobody thought that this particular man could do such a thing. He was ‘’as easy going as an old shoe’’. They say he was kind to his neighbours and always wanted to help anyone. Who would have expected that this same man killed and wound all these innocent people? This kind of stories makes me anxious.