“We have laws preventing mentally ill people that pose a danger from obtaining guns.”
When Sandy Hook happened Obama immediately put out over 20 Executive Orders to try to stop gun violence. It doesn’t make any difference what the law says, a nut can get a gun in this country if he/she wants one. They’re all over the street.
The military processes article 15’s and court martials on a daily basis all over the world and has for the lifetime of the army. But they are not different from the civilian court system in how they operate. In the civilian world, there are deals made all the time for lesser sentences and “deal.” Same in the military. He might have received a bad conduct or general discharge and the terms are coded in his DD 214 that no one ever seems to read.
But to pick out one branch of the service that acts just like the their civilian counterparts is not the way to look at it. It isn’t the system, it’s the people that make the decision to do things. The laws are fine, just enforce them.
They didn’t bust Bill for lying under oath, or Hilly for lying about her computer, or any of the “journalists” for lying in the media. And yes they were contributory to the deaths of people. In the Clinton’s part, a whole lot of them.
rwood
I agree with you, any nut can get a gun. But that doesn’t mean that the FBI and others should just ignore what reporting and prevention tools they have to use to decrease these cases.