“LEAKAGE” should be the focus of Gabriel Wortman Inquiry

Mary Ellen O’Toole coined the terminology

Anyone who ever spent more than a few hours with Gabriel Wortman soon realized he was an “Injustice Collector” : ie, he tended to blow imagined slights WAY out of proportion, combined with an inability to ever let them go.

Heck even a young couple who only spent a few hours with GW on an initial denture appointment came away with that sense.

A lot of us are “injustice collectors” to some degree : but we don’t all go out and commit horrible spree killings to avenge a lifetime of imagined slights.

We usually successful mask our inner wish to throttle those who we think have wronged us.

But some can’t : at first, the mask only slips when drunk and away from work —- but later —- some even unmask even to total strangers, while sober and in a formal work situation.

GW is a textbook example of doing both.

“Leakage” this is called in the medical scientific police circles that investigate this condition.

Noticing “leakage” of violent thoughts from “injustice collectors” is the best way we the public can help end the 90% of mass shootings that stem from them.

Yep, 90%.

We have to learn to take “leakage” seriously - and so do doctors, colleagues, police, judges.

If the only real outcome of a Wortman Inquiry is that we all really take in the full meaning of the term “leakage”, and act accordingly :  it will be worth it - and that will be a suitable legacy to the 23 innocent lives lost....