Oh, god.

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When I first heard about the shooting, I didn't expect it to be a doctor.

Bello was allowed to resign from the hospital in 2015 amid sexual harassment allegations, according to two law enforcement officials. The officials didn't know the details of the allegations.

The officials were not authorized to discuss the still-unfolding investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

In unrelated cases, the doctor pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment, a misdemeanor, in 2004 after a 23-year-old woman told police Bello grabbed her, lifted her up and carried her off, saying, "You're coming with me." He was arrested again in 2009 on a charge of unlawful surveillance, after two different women reported he was trying to look up their skirts with a mirror.

These are misdemeanors? Why was he allowed to practice medicine for so long? (And still technically allowed, it sounds like.) More to the point, why was he allowed access to firearms? These aren't some youthful errors - he was already a doctor, already in his 30s. What the hell.)

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These are misdemeanors because it would be hard to prove that any specific harm resulted from them. The lady he picked up was apparently not injured, sexually assaulted, confined, tortured or whatever. The women whose skirts he was allegedly peeping up had their modesty offended, and it was totally unprofessional, but hardly a felony-level crime.

He was allowed to practice medicine for so long because the review boards and the justice system invariably take the word of the well-to-do professional male over the younger and/or poorer female, particularly if he was her doctor, pastor, teacher or boss.

He was allowed access to firearms because total morons have blocked every attempt to prevent those convicted of domestic violence and other non-felonious assault from buying whatever high-tech weapons of war they want.