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To: The Pack Knight

don’t know the criteria in this law but the Va Tech lunatic should not have had a gun


8 posted on 12/19/2007 3:54:56 PM PST by RDTF (Remember Pearl Harbor)
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To: RDTF
Well, evidently this law doesn't actually change the definition of "mentally ill", but rather simply clarifies the documents required to show whether someone is mentally ill.

The current law, 18 USC § 922 bars selling a gun to anyone "who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution."
17 posted on 12/19/2007 4:04:54 PM PST by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: RDTF
There were already laws to keep him from having a gun. they were not followed.
25 posted on 12/19/2007 4:18:32 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("Has there been a code nine? Have you heard from the Doctor?")
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To: RDTF

Of course he should have been allowed to have a gun. ...but I and my American brothers and sisters should all be allowed to openly carry without nanny-state infringement so that we could shoot his a$$ dead the minute he first pulled his piece.


51 posted on 12/19/2007 5:09:58 PM PST by Ranger Drew
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