[Zakeet]

Perhaps an even better solution than relying on failed government would have been to not make the theater into a gun free zone.

[MulberryDraw]

Errors in a gubmint database? Can’t be. (sarc)

[Diogenesis]

Why is Obama-supporter missing again?

Because it explains .... everything.

[oh8eleven]

Separated at birth?

[Terry L Smith]

So:

The movie LLC owners are at fault for attempting to put every customer at risk, and themselves, by sticking little no guns here signs on the doors of the owned theaters;

The DOCTORS, defaulted on their responsibility, BY LAW, to report this deadsnithead as one to be on the lookout for;

The NICS background system worked as it should, with the information already required, but not submitted to, BY LAW.

The pawn shop did as it does, in accordance with the state and federal laws.

Yes, thedeadsnithead was the criminal, and yes, did the shooting, but the DOCTORS are criminally negligent in their duties, as per the law.

[silverleaf]

I can agree with having mental hospital time as an inhibitor to buying a gun

Everyone who knew this guy knew he was a lunatic

[Mercat]

I tried a divorce case about 20 years ago where the husband had been hospitalized for mental illness and I had him on tape threatening his wife (my client) and me and the judge had both those pieces of evidence in the record but the judge still awarded the husband the guns in the divorce.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Is it me, or does anyone else think Houser look a little like Frank Sinatra?

[Gaffer]

Federal law does generally prohibit the purchase or possession of a firearm by anyone who has ever been involuntarily committed for mental health treatment.

No, not GENERALLY. This is a specific question on the Form 4473 a purchaser has to fill out. It's a trigger question for the seller. The backup is supposed to be NICS' having data like this in its database. There is a fault here - either with the Georgia Court system that put him in involuntary mental health status by not amending his records, OR by how NICS aggregates and logs data. One or the other. I ponder this. Our healthcare system is a huge array of connected databases and information and cross checks. Is all that working? If not, what leads one to think a NICS system works as well? My bet is NICS is comprehensive because their purpose is to keep guns out of the hands of any American, period. This certainly deserves more discovery.

[Sacajaweau]

My question....did any family member know that he bought it??

[Lazamataz]

Despite obvious and public signs of mental illness — most importantly, a Georgia judge's order committing him to mental health treatment against his will as a danger to himself and others in 2008 — Houser was able to walk into an Alabama pawn shop six years later and buy a .40-caliber handgun.

Involuntary commitment to a mental institution is a lifelong disqualifier.

You can have it rescinded if you can show your mental illness is cured, but this guy did not do that.

The legal system failed. Therefore let us make more laws and not enforce those either!!! WHOOO HOOOO!!!

[dila813]

Why can’t we recognize evil and stop making excuses for these people.

Not all mentally ill people with the same symptoms chooses to shoot down a bunch of people.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I have a few answers that’ll solve this problem for the most part.

1. Allow everyone to own firearms and implement national Constitutional Carry. If criminals and nutbars want to mis-use their firearms they can go right ahead, but they’ll receive an instant death penalty. And if they get away a warrant and a bounty will be placed on their heads. If they resist being arrested the result is an instant death penalty. Implement a national death penalty for the court system.

2. Outlaw all gun-free zones except the court system.

3. Require all homeowners to own a firearm (ala Kennesaw, Georgia 1985).

4. Repeal the ban on full-auto firearms.

5. Repeal the ban on firearms suppressors.

6. Implement firearms safety courses in government schools taught by volunteers from the NRA. The social studies teachers can teach the other aspects of firearms history and the real reasons for the citizenry to own, carry and use and the results from that.

7. Have a national firearms safety, training, and learning day on July 5th.

Feel free to add to this list.

[Sooth2222]

"Despite obvious and public signs of mental illness — most importantly, a Georgia judge's order committing him to mental health treatment against his will as a danger to himself and others in 2008 ... Federal law does generally prohibit the purchase or possession of a firearm by anyone who has ever been involuntarily committed for mental health treatment."

So instead of enforcing the law ... the remedy is more gun control laws? (And more taxes?)

[Charles Martel]

More proof that the background check system is a gun-owner registry first and foremost. Blocking purchases to disqualified individuals requires state and local government workers to actually do some work, so that part is of secondary, occasional importance.