“What? Someone that can comprehend better than I please read and explain.”
The Air Force has publicly acknowledged that the felony conviction for domestic violence, had it been put into the FBI database, could have prevented Kelley from buying guns from licensed firearms dealers, and also from possessing body armor.
Nor the gun,
Nor his parents,
Nor his upbringing,
It was the Air Force.
AIUI, I agree the AF SHOULD Have reported him.
Someone filed suit over the Church. Liability is based on what percentage of the damages were caused by each individual defendant’s fault. (Comparative fault). The court here decided the Air Force’s negligence was 60% the cause of the Plaintiff’s damages.
Translation #2: Those of us with sound minds will see it as no need for new gun laws. If the existing laws had been used he wouldn't have bought guns and done the shooting.
I don’t understand this. I am told a gun purchaser will NOT pass muster if they are ex military and have anything other than an honorable discharge. This guy had a bad conduct discharge and yet passed the back round check?
Something smells here.
Paying out millions in a lawsuit against the federal government. It’s just government money so why not.
Nearly every mass shooter has had a history that should have nullified their firearm rights.
As gun owners, we support restricting the purchase of firearms from convicted felons.
But time and again, local, state and federal authorities do not update the database of felons to prevent such people from buying firearms legally.
Then, after the shootings, we must suffer the ignorant calls for more restrictions, confiscations and bans because those charged with ensuring public safety failed at their jobs.
Was anyone in the military deemed “responsible” for Nidal Hasan’s terrorist attack on Ft. Hood since his outburts and connect to foreign terror groups was known?
This church shooting - with more than two dozen dead - has almost been forgotten, just like the murder of the Chicago cops by BLM and the Scalise shooting. All we ever hear about are Charlottesville and January 6th, over and over.
Yeah, it gets THIS sick. EVIL people in high places.
not sure why whoever works the data base..fbi? Isn’t more to blame?
Or, I guess the AF failed to provide the info?
The government imnposes the NICS system.
Another branch of governement fails to report to the system properly.
But the problem is the hunter in northern Wisconsin who uses an AR-15 to nail coyotes on his property. We need to go after that guy!
What a bull-hit ruling by this judge. Yes, the AF did not put the individual in the data base, but being in the data base would not have prevented this individual from getting a gun on the street. Also, as the article states, being in the data base COULD have prevented him from buying a gun from an FFL but that is not a sure thing either, especially with the screwed up incompetent FBI we no have. The AF was wrong for not putting in the data base, but it is not responsible nor mostly responsibe for the acts of this guy. The individual is. Judge is an idiot
Then the Army is 60% responsible for Nidal Hasan.
“A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Air Force is mostly responsible for a former serviceman killing more than two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 because it failed to submit his criminal history into a database, which should have prevented him from purchasing firearms.”
Sure, because if the gun store turns you down, there is just no other way to acquire a firearm.
That’s it; your criminal designs are thwarted. “Curses, foiled again.”
Well, at least it wasn’t the gun’s fault.
Well, how silly of me to have thought it was the sicko who’s finger pulled the trigger was at fault.
That’s the problem with these ‘databases”, they absolve others for their own actions.
Is this piece indicating that he was convicted by court martial? If so it’s my understanding that court martial convictions are considered Federal convictions in the same way that most Mafia convictions are considered. One would think that any such conviction would be put into the database.