Florida woman "consumed" by Oklahoma City and Columbine attacks arrested with arsenal of weapons
Source: CBS News
By COURTNEY ZUBOWSKI CBS NEWS October 4, 2019, 6:40 PM
Weapons found in Michelle Kolts' home. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Tampa, Florida — Police were called to a Tampa-area home where inside they discovered an arsenal of two dozen metal-stuffed pipe bombs and fuses as well as a cache of guns and other weapons.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said "it's frightening to think of the catastrophic damage and loss of life" that could have been done with the weapons.
Twenty-seven-year-old Michelle Kolts who works at this maintenance supply business was arrested early Friday morning. She's charged with 24 counts of making a destructive device with intent to harm. There were also books and DVDs focused on murder, mass killings, domestic terror and bomb-making found in the home. Kolts lives with her parents, who turned her in.
"Every law enforcement officer in the world always says if you see something say something," Chronister said. "I couldn't applaud these parents more for having the courage to do just that."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michelle-kolts-arrest-florida-obsessed-with-attacks-arrested-pipe-bombs-2019-10-04/
Michelle Kolts: Woman Had 24 Pipe Bombs, ‘Consumed by Columbine,’ Cops Say
Michelle Kolts is the Florida woman who is accused of building and possessing 24 pipe bombs that could have claimed “significant lives” and done “catastrophic damage,” the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has said. Kolts, 27, is a resident of Wimauma, Florida, a community just south of Tampa.
Online records show that Kolts was arrested at her job. Kolts was then taken to her home where she admitted to making the bombs, according to Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister. Her home is located along the 5000 block of Jagged Cloud Drive. Kolts was taken into custody just before midnight on October 3. Those records show that Kolts is being held on a bond of $180,000. Among her possessions was a copy of the white supremacist book, “The Turner Diaries.”
Kolts is facing charges of 24 counts of making a destructive device which is a second-degree felony. If found guilty on all charges, Kolts could face 15 years in prison.
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I guess those situations involve a therapist. I was saying I receive mental health treatment without seeing a therapist. There are so many different mental illness that I would guess the treatments for them vary.
I wanted to know what she is there for and what if any diagnosis did they make.
The reason why this important to me
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As family physicians, we are no strangers to mental health care. In fact, my most common diagnoses (after "health maintenance"
are anxiety and depression. Every day, I see patients who are struggling with sleep, appetite, concentration and energy. These are hallmarks of mental health issues. Committing a mass shooting is not.
That's why it's important for family physicians to combat the persistent myth that mental illness is a leading factor in mass shootings. This is unsupported by evidence.
Study(psychiatryonline.org) after study(www.sciencedirect.com) has demonstrated that people with mental health issues commit only a miniscule percentage of mass shootings and account for less than 1% of annual gun homicides. According to a study based on Swedish data published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, only 3%-5% of violent crimes are perpetrated by someone with a mental illness.(ajp.psychiatryonline.org) In fact, people with serious mental illnesses are more likely to be the victims of violence.(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) And the vast majority of gun deaths in America are from suicide, meaning those with mental illness are far more likely to harm themselves than others.
Blaming mental illness only serves to further stigmatize patients who have mental health issues as inherently dangerous. And it deflects attention from a real predictor of mass shootings: easy access to guns.
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/freshperspectives/entry/20190918fp-massshootings.html
I worry that something like this can be dismissed as mental illness and nothing will be done but guns.
Gotta wonder what finally made her parents think, "okay that's a bit TOO whacko".
(However, from the photo, Kolts seems to have kept the place very tidy and neat)
I was going to write "Florida Woman tells Florida Man: Hold my beer"
I yield to your quicker mind
