Thanks for the information. So you know anything about how Jerald Loughner was able to attain a gun when he he was obviously not sane?
Criminals never have any problem obtaining guns. They don’t obey laws, by definition. I could drive down to downtown Syracuse and buy a couple pistols right now if I didn’t care about breaking the law. Once I decide to shoot up some folks, any gun law is just a technicality.
And PS...it’s Jerod.
Because not one person that Loughner brushed up against that knew he was apecrap nuts, not his psychiatrists nor school administrators who kicked him out of school, nor the police who held him for psychiatric observation, ever said a word about it. Loughner was never adjudicated away to the looney bin, and thus he never showed up as a prohibited person on the NICS check.
He bought the guns legally. He shouldn’t have been able to, legally. We need to change that. See my tag line.
Unfortunately, the looney lovers nationwide don’t want nut jobs stigmatized if they seek mental health help. They insist on HIPAA anonymity for mental patients, which is both good and bad I suppose. We do want people to get ‘help’, even though that just means doping them up on prescription goo-goo pills like SSRIs that so much of America is already using, most notably just about every recent young spree killer who’s murdered people with guns. Gosh, they even advertise crazy pills on television: “All those screaming kids around your house too much for you, Mrs. Suburbia? Ask your doctor about new Wellbutrin XL!”
Nobody wants to talk about sending people to the rubber room. It’s off-limits. It’s easier and politically beneficial to just blame the NRA.