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Posted on 01/25/2011 10:55:58 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK (AP) -- The intern credited with helping Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head in Arizona is speaking out in favor of changes to the nation's background check system.
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So now he’s an expert? The nation’s foremost authority on firearms and our Constitutional rights?
Why am I not surprised....
The dems are going to wheel in Giffords at just the right strategic moment. Perhaps right before a vote on some gun-control measure. Never let a crisis go to waste, as the next Chicago mayor is fond of saying.
I am all for gun control.
I hate missing the target.
You are fooled by the headline.
He is asking for changes to the background check.
Do you disagree that this lunatic ought not to have passed the background check?
Hey dumb@ass - the problem wasn’t with a background check failing. The problem was that the Pima County Sheriff failed to do his responsibility. Incredible this intern now thinks he’s an expert in this area.
He has endured significant trauma, and is emotionally compromised ... and understandably so. He may very well not be able to look at another gun for the rest of his life without having flashbacks of what may end up being the worst day of his life.
Sometimes those closest to a specific situation are the wrong people to craft a measured response. I hope he recovers as fully as is possible under the circumstances.
SnakeDoc
I haven't paid attention to all the details in the Loughner case, but my understanding was that everyone knew he was crazy, but no one had reported it. So he passed the existing background check. I'm not sure what sort of enhanced background check is being proposed, but I agree that Loughner (obviously) was not a good choice for a license.
The problem in the Tuscon shooting wasn’t with a background check failing. Loughner didn’t have anything noted in his background that would deny him the right to purchase a firearm. The problem is that Sheriff Dipstick didn’t do his job in the first place.
He wouldn’t have passed the background check IF Dupnik had done his job.
No system will work if criminals are allowed to walk scot free.
Perhaps you know of a way to do background checks which would catch people in a similar situation.
I don’t see a way that Jared Loughner could’ve failed a background check without having skipped over due process. He wasn’t a criminal, and hadn’t been declared psychiatrically problematic.
SnakeDoc
If not, why should a person have to pass a background check in order to exercise their 2nd Amendment Rights?
“but no one had reported it”
It was reported, the sheriff didn’t do his job because Loughner was the son of a friend.
I disagree that exercising a fundamental human right should be made subject to a “background check”, and I observe that murder, assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm within city limits, and littering are already illegal.
I think that is the case.
I also think he will act like Jesse Jackson did after the MLK assassination: trumpeting the event and his role in it to push his political career/agenda.
I guess gun control is easier than nut control.
It will be interesting to hear what Representative Giffords has to say about this issue, and gun control in general, when she completes rehab. IIRC, she is a gun owner and a gun-rights supporter.
What you said. BTTT. Gun control laws only punish the law abiding.
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