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Let Freedom Ring,
Posted on 11/30/2007 1:39:37 PM PST by Daffynition
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- States appear to be taking more action to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental health problems in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, new figures show.
Submissions of mentally ill patients' records to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System for gun buyers have more than doubled since the massacre in April, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Currently, states are not required to send reports of mental health problems, which would prohibit buyers from purchasing a gun.
But after the shootings -- when a student with a history of mental health problems killed 32 people before taking his own life -- the number of submissions to the database grew from 174,863 during the first half of the year to 393,957 from July to November.
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Let Freedom Ring,
This should keep Dems from owning guns.
Now if you want to be free, you also have to be insane. Reminds me of “Brave New World.”
11/29/07 post regarding same: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932446/posts
This is the Lefts new road into banning guns.
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