[steve-b]

Schumer wants to restrict gun sales to people with mental illness or restraining orders

Would this be a check form of the box -- I am qualified to purchase a gun because of:

__mental illness
__restraining order?

[Redleg Duke]

Aren't these liberals the same ones who demanded that mentally ill be released from the mental hospitals as a matter of individual freedoms and civil rights?

[glc1173@aol.com]

And what does Schumer plan for protecting the other victims of "deinstitutionalization?"

NYC has had way more than its share of people with known psycho record that come out after the fact shoving people in front of subway trains, hacking ferry passengers to death with toy swords, firebombs aboard subway trains, etc. In fact, NYC's "crazy crime" problem seems to be that it is a magnet for psychos and the homeless - rather than either guns or toy swords or glass jars full of gasoline - and has a deserved reputation for easy plea bargains that keep many violent criminals who'd be jailed anywhere else on its streets.

Scandals of antigun politicians - from Kalifornia to Manhattan!

[coloradan]

There's also a loophole in the Bill of Rights that guarantees individuals the right to keep and bear arms... that one's on the list, but they have to get the little stuff out of the way first.

[biblewonk]

Schumer wants to restrict gun sales to people with mental illness or restraining orders

Is this suppose to be a bad thing?

[lavaroise]

Since when the federal government could interfere with States' jurisdictions over the handling of people with mental illnesses and restraining orders? This is a major constitutional violation.

[logician2u]

These gun controllers are anything if not ingenuous.

They take a single incident that makes their case, then generalize on it, claiming all former mental patients are a threat to civilization as we know it.

And people who have had a restraining order against them. Well, that could be something like half of all divorced men if you think about it. And a fair percentage of women.

Pretty soon, expect that having bad credit will be cause for denying a person his right to own a firearm.

[from occupied ga]

Schumer wants to restrict gun sales to people with mental illness or restraining orders

Actually upChuck wants to restrict gun sales so that only the police and the military will be armed, just the way the first Nazis did.