Senate passes gun bill in response to rampage

Reuters ^ | Dec 19, 2007 | Thomas Ferraro

[RDTF]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress, prodded by the deadliest shooting rampage in modern American history, passed legislation on Wednesday designed to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

Without objection, the Senate and House of Representatives approved the measure, which would bolster background checks for gun buyers, and sent it to President George W. Bush to sign.

[tired1]

yeah, this’ll work.

[xcamel]

Think how easy it is to get someone declared “mentally ill”...

[tet68]

Once conservativism is deemed unstable, they’ll be around to disarm us, or so they think.

[The Pack Knight]

And what is the criterion of “mental illness” required to deprive a citizen of his right to keep and bear arms?

[Old Sarge]

(Clintonvoice) “Wahl, thet depen’s on whacher definishin of ‘mentally ill’, is...”

In 2009, conservatism will be declared a psychosis by all “respected” medical experts, and the mass rehab will begin.

[The Pack Knight]

There are certainly enough people who think anyone who actually believes they need a gun is mentally unstable.

[RDTF]

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

[SouthTexas]

This applies to all those crazy people that think the 2nd amend. is an "individual" right.

Do I really need the sarcasm tag?

[2nd amendment mama]

Ping....very bad news!

[CrappieLuck]

There are already laws that prevent people who have been diagnosed with Mental illness from buying guns.

Political Correctness prevented his case from being reported and political correctness disarmed the victims.

Why didn’t they just pass another law to make killing illegal? - Geese, that would have been more smarter /sarc

[yldstrk]

Senate passes measure in response to Congressional rampage.

[MaxMax]

Ok then, how will mental illness be defined the Government?
And how often will it change now that this idiotic law is passed?

I can just see boardrooms full of doctors sitting around trying to
figure out a way to add new definitions.

[tired1]

law to make killing illegal?

let’s just make murder illegal. oh, it is.

[Comus]

It will work about as well as all those laws that make undocumented immigration into the US illegal.

[imdref]

And we’re supposed to trust the government to administer this system? OK.

[The Pack Knight]

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."

[P8riot]

That’s OK. I’m to the right of most conservatives anyway.

[RDTF]

that makes sense

[JDoutrider]

Watch out fellow veterans, if you served in combat, and sought counseling for ptsd, or anything else related to your experiences...

THEIR COMING FOR YOUR GUNS!!!