In a shocking repeat offense, Austin Benson, 36, faces dismissal of 23 felony charges—including four counts of attempted murder—for randomly shooting and severely injuring three people in Aurora, Colorado, on June 27, 2024. One victim was left paralyzed, another suffered shattered bones, and the third endured multiple gunshot wounds. This comes after Benson was arrested in 2018 for a nearly identical crime: firing an AK-47 at strangers while driving. That case dragged on for five years before charges were dropped due to mental incompetence, with the same rifle returned to his wife—only for Benson to use it in the 2024 attack. Now, deemed unrestorable to competency, he's headed for indefinite commitment in a locked mental health facility, but critics slam the system for failing to act sooner, allowing preventable violence.
This isn't justice—it's a revolving door of incompetence that puts law-abiding Americans in the crosshairs while coddling the dangerously unhinged. Austin Benson's story is a damning indictment of Colorado's soft-on-crime, mental health-obsessed legal farce: A guy fires an AK-47 at random folks in 2018, gets slapped with attempted murder charges, and the courts dither for five years before shrugging it off as "incompetence." They hand the murder weapon back to his wife like it's a library book overdue, no red flags waved, no safeguards slapped on. Fast-forward to 2024, and boom—same rifle, same psycho, three innocents gunned down in their own neighborhood. A mom shielding her daughter takes bullets to the gut; a dad's elbow is fused into useless scrap metal; a woman's spine is shattered, leaving her paralyzed for life. And the system's response? "Oh, he's too crazy for trial—let's commit him now, after the blood's already spilled." Pathetic.
This is what happens when liberal judges and DAs prioritize "restorative" touchy-feely nonsense over public safety. Benson was competent enough to buy guns, get married, and drive around hunting victims—yet suddenly too loony for accountability? Bull. Colorado's laws force dismissals after endless evaluations, with zero "safety net" for ticking time bombs like this. It's the same failed playbook that's turned sanctuary-state havens into shooting galleries: Defund the police, hamstring prosecutions, and watch crime surge. Victims like Kimberly Lottes and Kenny Lottes aren't just statistics—they're collateral damage from a bureaucracy more worried about the perp's "rights" than your right to live without fear.
Enough. We need federal overrides: Mandatory lifetime firearm bans for violent incompetents, no exceptions. Hold judges personally liable when their "compassion" unleashes monsters—sue them into oblivion, strip their robes. And arm up, folks—because when the state fails, self-defense is your last line. This isn't about hating the mentally ill; it's about protecting the sane from the fallout of elite idiocy. Time for Trump-era toughness: Lock 'em up or lock 'em away for good, before vigilantes fill the void. Colorado, wake up—your "progressive" experiment is a bloodbath.