He's got a point. Such a law would effectively ban gun sales from Democrats...
Posted on 04/20/2007 6:03:10 PM PDT by melt
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that laws should be strengthened to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns.
Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman who shot 32 people at Virginia Tech Monday before killing himself, had a history of mental health problems but still was able to buy two guns that he used in the rampage.
"If we know that he got mental health services, then there should be some way of preventing somebody like that from buying any kind of weapon," Obama said in an interview on "The Steve Harvey Morning Show," syndicated on radio stations nationwide.
Federal law prohibits the mentally ill from purchasing guns, but most states have privacy laws barring such information from being shared with law enforcement. Some advocates for the mentally ill and gun-rights groups have opposed legislation in recent years that would include the information in computerized record-keeping.
Obama said gun laws have to be changed to prevent the type of killings that happened not only at Virginia Tech this week but are persistent in urban areas across the country.
"I mean, kids are getting gunned down every day," the Illinois senator said. "It's not 32 at a time, but if you look at the statistics, you're seeing that same kind of violence on a pretty frequent basis. And that's part of our culture that we've just got to be able to change with some commonsense."
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He's got a point. Such a law would effectively ban gun sales from Democrats...
The devil is in the details, Mr. B.
Who gets to decide who is crazy, and on what grounds should such a decision be made?
Whata Leader, I won’t be able to sleep tonight!!!!
stop empty suits from mouthing off.
Man, you beat me to it. Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Here’s a better idea for you Osama. How about we get rid of libtard judges who refuse to force obvious mental cases into serious treatment.
The devil is in the details, indeed.
Personally, I’d like to prevent the mentally ill from voting.
Truly, the devil is in the details here. Having people declared mentally ill was just one of the many ways the former Soviet Union would persecute dissidents.
Why do they keep referring to him as Cho Seung-Hui? Cho was his last name.
He used the code word, except shortened it (or the writer did) from “common sense” to “commonsense”. Sure, commonsense gun laws, sure as long as their commonsense laws, that’s OK.
So who will be the first to enact legislation to require that all background checks include a medical background check as well? The ACLU bends over backwards (not a good image, sorry) to keep medical records under wraps.
Would that mean prospective gun buyers would have to submit to a psych eval at their personal expense?
The slippery slope has been greased...
One thing at a time, Barack, got to keep them out of politics first!
In Asian languages, or at least in Chinese and Korean, the family name comes first.
ML/NJ
Kewl. They can start their civil war with Ginzu knives. We'll be done and home in time for dinner.
That is true, but 90% of the shooters have one thing in common and it is not that they purchased the guns legally or that they are mentally ill.
You can say that again.
Did you ever check out the people in the background?
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Let’s stop letting people on welfare, vote.
That's a cure for priapism.
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