Violent mentally ill people do not need neglect, they need treatment.
Posted on 02/19/2018 7:00:18 AM PST by Simon Green
“What we need here is an empty useless gesture.”
Correct. This will be the Democrats’ “Hail Mary” for 2018. They are desperate. Trump has to delicately handle the ginned up millennial vote. Your “empty useless gesture” hits the nail on the head.
Fake News CNN is talking about tougher gun laws.
No one is talking about locking mentally unstable people up.
That would be more effective in protecting public safety than another useless gun control law,
First-person shooter video games have proliferated since Columbine.
I’m all for banning them and recalling all deployed media.
Moonbats would be fine with this as well.
There is nothing wrong with correcting deficiencies of the current process such as making sure the military passes along disqualifying data to the FBI, such as allowed the Texas church shooter to get a gun.
What they are really after is outlawing private sales.
They want to make it illegal for me to sell to family, friends, neighbors, etc.
They want to force all sales of firearms through FFL’s so that they have a paper trail on each weapon which eventually gives them a de facto registry.
I really don’t know for sure....perhaps the 39 visits by the police to the home for his disturbing behaviour? Shouldn’t there have been SOMETHING on his record when he went to buy a weapon at 18 years of age? As I say, this is not something I’m terribly familiar with, but I did wonder why tougher checks would not be welcomed.
Tougher federal,laws will,only work if states and localities- including schools - share information about shooter threats
Are the pumped up snowflakes at Parkland willing to have their social media scrutinized by the po-po?
The real answer is to get the FIBs to DO THEIR JOB!!!
If someone is purchasing a gun and the background check involves full name, SSN, address, past addresses, spouse name, phone numbers, email, etc. etc. etc. then what does a ‘tougher’ check look like?
Are they required to spell their middle name? Is the FBI bureaucrat going to ask what color paint is on their house? What kind of car they drive?
In a great irony, ‘tougher’ background checks only confirm what we already know: law-abiding gun owners aren’t the problem.
Good point, and conversely, (obviously), most if not all of his previous psychotic behavior WOULD have flagged him in the NICS system if he had been dealt with appropriately, i.e. arrested for threatening people’s lives, and also for certain other psychotic incidents the police knew about.
Add in national CCW reciprocity, and I might be interested.
Ok, that I understand. If they just want to use this to take over, then I get it.
You seem to believe that a “stronger background check” would have stopped him. So what should have been checked? Or are you just mindlessly concern-trolling?
Right. A background check system is only good as the info it gets.
There are systemic failures across all levels of government.
A new background check law will do nothing to address them.
Violent mentally ill people do not need neglect, they need treatment.
We need to fix the FBI and law enforcement, which are largely useless, rather than change the law.
What a super duper non-solution, Mr. Presminent!
OOOOOH WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, BUT CERTAINLY NOTHING THAT WILL HAVE ANY EFFECT WHATSOEVER ON ANY FUTURE MASS SHOOTING!
F***in’ useless.
Yes but it was emailed to Hillary’s Gateway 2000 386 server in her coat closet.
To hell with criminal background check legislation. Widespread open carry. The criminals will be dead soon enough.
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