Finally! A voice of reason.
Jason Chaffetz: To stop more shootings, stop erasing criminal records of juveniles prone to violence
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In some cases these students suffer from mental health issues that make them fundamentally incapable of distinguishing right from wrong – and their parents, school officials and law enforcement officials often know it.
At what point do such behaviors become too serious to erase? If these problems manifest in adults, they can show up in a federal background check.
Last year President Trump signed into law the Fix NICS Act to ensure states submit information to an FBI database in a timely manner involving individuals who are prohibited from owning a firearm.
But what about students who were minors at the time of their infractions? They don’t show up in that database. They should.
The ability of such kids to legally purchase a firearm on their 18th birthday should be delayed until their case can be further adjudicated, if requested. Society could later consider restoring the constitutional right to bear arms, but only after review by a judge or some period of time (perhaps 10 years) passes with no additional infractions or serious mental health red flags.
We should debate where to draw the lines, but the notion that all is erased at the age of 18 no longer makes sense.
A staunch liberal Democrat wavers in reaction to the recent rhetoric of her party
By C.S. Boddie
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I noticed significant changes in my liberal friend’s thinking.
For one thing, my friend said she did not like The Squad, the four congresswomen who are taking the Democratic Party so far left. (Normally, she doesn’t countenance any criticism of any Democrat.) Furthermore, she said she was offended when they threw down the race card in response to Speaker Nancy Pelosi disciplining them.
My comment to my friend was that the racism charges are all slander, whether Democrats are calling Pelosi or President Trump racist, because there’s no evidence of either being racist. I added that we have forgotten what a real racist is but that we have just been reminded by the sick person who killed so many in El Paso, Texas.
My friend thought about this a second, and then she said she was just sick of Democrats crying racism all the time.
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My friend objected to the Democrats wanting open borders. She said she wants the southern border secured, and she wants authorities to vet everyone who comes into our country.
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my friend opined that gays and transgender people demand power and attention at a level that’s not justified by their numbers in our society. She added that she actually thought transgenderism is really a kind of mental illness.
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My friend concluded that she just didn’t know about the Democratic Party anymore and that she might just have to become an independent.
My thought was, she sounds like me years ago. Later, it occurred to me that she was a canary in the political coal mine.
Absurd, if they're willing to kill, they're willing to steal one. We need a law to ban them from stealing a firearm....oh wait, that's already illegal.
We don't need to take guns away from the people, we need to take MURDERERS away from the people.
LOCK THEM UP!
Bitt - did you see this? I’m very late today so maybe you did. AWESOME!!! Next, allow death penalty for teens who commit heinous crimes, a very bad SCOTUS decision stopped that.
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Finally! A voice of reason.
Jason Chaffetz: To stop more shootings, stop erasing criminal records of juveniles prone to violence