Feinstein questioned why Elliot Rodger was allowed to own guns, and ripped the NRA’s “stranglehold” on Congress. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Posted on 05/25/2014 2:29:01 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Feinstein questioned why Elliot Rodger was allowed to own guns, and ripped the NRA’s “stranglehold” on Congress. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Elliot Rodger’s shooting spree had Sen. Dianne Feinstein lamenting the “stranglehold” the NRA has over gun laws.
“The deadly shooting in Isla Vista is heartbreaking,” the California Democrat said Sunday in a statement. “Schools should be places of safety, not where students fear for their lives.”
Feinstein questioned why Elliot Rodger was able to legally obtain and keep his guns.
“We must ask ourselves if an individual whose family called police with concerns about mental health, who is receiving therapy and who has had several run-ins with police should be allowed to own multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. When anyone, no matter their mental health or history, can so easily obtain any gun they want and as many as they want—we must recognize there is a problem.
“Unfortunately the NRA continues to have a stranglehold on Congress, preventing even commonsense measures like universal background checks that have overwhelming support. Americans need to rise up and say enough is enough. Until that happens, we will continue to see these devastating attacks. Shame on us for allowing this to continue.”
Separately, Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., pushed for Congress to pass his mental health legislation in the wake of the Elliot Rodger’s rampage in Isla Vista.
An effort to pass background checks and a package of mental health initiatives was torpedoed by a GOP-led filibuster in the Senate last year.
DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IN OUR MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM.
someone DID call for a wellness check and when the police came he was not actively suicidal or homocidal. End of story. I think you want to be careful too about refusing gun owner ship to anyone who has EVER been hospitalized for any type of emotional problem...the next step is taking certain medications..or seeing a counselor..THAT’S a lot of US citizens.
Have they determined if he bought the guns legally WITH a background check?
Feinstein’s rampage prompts bboop to finally join the NRA.
The more these Democrats utter this crap, the bigger the shallacking they’re going to get in November.
I lost my bet. I took odds on Shumer being the first one of the democrats gun grabbers to dance on the bodies of the victims.
Totalitarian government good! Free men, baaaaad!
FU Feinswine, you fascist gun grabber.
And legally what would you do then..with your MAJOR RED FLAG?
go to his house? Demand he give you the guns? confiscate the guns? arrest him for owning legally bought and registered guns and saying stuff that gets people scaired?
You have no idea how our laws work, moreover your hysteria for someone to DO SOMETHING BOUT HIS GUNS if they know a person has problems ...WELL, WE HAVE LAWS and they are pretty restrictive now. why don’t you join Feinstein with your outrage..you sound just like you two would have a lot in common.
What we actually need is a little psycho brat control.
Feinstein has packed heat and/ or we the taxpayers have been charged to pay for professional gunmen for her for years and years and years and years , since she was a middle- aged county supervisor. That much is understandable. Her trying to restrict or eliminate our rights to keep and bear arms is not. What’s good for the goose is .....
I haven’t had the stomach to read his screed. The videos were bad enough. Did he mention what he was studying at school?
I thought the video “Why do women hate me?” ( where he is standing in the road) looked exactly like an audition tape.
It’s disturbing that Feinstein and others are only concerned about the people killed with the guns. Nothing about the people killed with the knives or run over by the car. Killing is ok unless it is done with a gun, then it’s bad. It shows that they are only concerned about their gun banning agenda and will use any opportunity they have to promote it.
For the common good, Democrats should not have guns or children.
When someone’s FAMILY, and PSYCHIATRIST warnings along WITH rants posted on the net DO NOT DESERVE A simple computer check for
recent firearm purchases!!!! THIS IS NOT A LIB VIEWPOINT, IT IS A
VERY BIG RED FLAG would you prefer NONE of us be able to own firearms due to these mentally ill young men!!!!!
It’s the meds: http://members.drugawareness.org/?p=4614
“The police decided he was a polite kid.”
Obviously 100% WRONG there. Not trying to hijack the thread, but I wonder how often they are wrong when they are “in fear of their life”......
The Left demanding policy based upon knee jerk thinking is really all about their desire for control. If they want to control something, why don't they try running a business.
Legal bought guns. Waiting period (10 days)complete. NICS check complete. 10 round magazine check complete.
All California laws observed.
How did that work out for you Santa Barbara!
From my understanding there is an internal review of the visits. Apparently if reports are true they went three times to visit this kid.
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