Posted on 02/22/2008 10:19:10 PM PST by neverdem
Following a spate of campus attacks and threats, including the fatal shootings at Northern Illinois University and a chilling message scrawled in a boys' bathroom at a Levittown high school, federal lawmakers are renewing a push to beef up gun-control laws, fund safety procedures and study the link between college shootings and mental illness.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), at a news conference yesterday in Manhattan, said he and congressional colleagues plan to step up efforts to close loopholes in gun-control measures and create a federal task force to come up with national school safety guidelines. They also plan to push for congressional hearings on links between mental illness and school violence.
The effort comes a little more than a month after President George W. Bush signed a gun-control bill in response to a horrific shooting at Virginia Tech University, where a student with a history of mental troubles killed 32 people in April. The law seeks to expand the federal database used to screen gun buyers to include more than 2 million people who are not eligible to buy firearms, including those with mental problems.
That measure includes only "adjudicated" mentally ill patients, Schumer said. While it would have applied to Seung-Hui Cho, the gunman at Virginia Tech, it would not have revealed Illinois campus shooter Steven Kazmierczak, because he never was ruled mentally ill.
Among the efforts Schumer outlined are a bill introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) last February, which is stalled in Congress, to provide funding for security at colleges and high schools.
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A courier arrives at the headquarters of General Schumer during a battle:
“General,our men are suffering heavy loses!”
“Tell them to dump their armor and heavy weapons!”
Later:
“General,we are losing even MORE men!”
“Well,tell them to get rid of their small arms and knives then!”
Later:
“General,we have hardly any men left!”
“Gee,we must have we done something really bad to make them hate us that much.”
We’ve got the same problem in Arizona with McCain, over, and over.
Can’t use a sling shot in the People’s Republic of Zoo Jersey! Illegal weapon .
While they’re at it just outlaw crime. Simplest way to solve every thing, see?
Well, the new law could prohibit any type of airgun, firearm, folding stocks on slingshots, or anything that even looks like one within 2500 feet of an educational institution.
That should solve the problem, right?
How about implementing a 90 day waiting period? Dang, that would stop it.
Better yet, require gun locks on everything. That would slow things down a lot.
Man, I just don’t get it. How many years have we been doing this and how many gun restriction laws have been passed.. and I’ve yet to see one that made any difference outside of political gain or feel-good agenda. How many lives have been LOST to gun control? What would have been the death toll at VA Tech if only 5% of their students were carrying concealed?
I just don’t get it anymore.
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/
Taking the guns out of the hands of citizens one generation at a time.
Schumer is just NOT an American. PERIOD.
Sen. Charles Schumer (Putzhead Schmuck-N.Y.) blah, blah, blah... They also plan to push for congressional hearings on links between mental illness, school violence and Voter Registration and/or voting patterns. The prevailing view of mental health professionals is they are all Democrats.
There, fixed it.
Why doesn’t Schumer outlaw mental illness?
Ah, that was just one of three he was taking prior to the shooting. He had been prescribed Xanax, Ambien and Prozac. According to his exgirlfriend, he abruptly stopped taking them sometime prior to the shooting.
Sure, there is a hidden agenda here. As a gun-grabber once told me, any one who wants to own a gun should pass a mental health test administered by a pyscologist. And, then he added, and any one who wants to own a gun is, by definition, mentally ill. Therefore, no one would pass the evaluation.
I suppose if there was some separation of responsibility in those evaluating mental fitness and those giving weapons permits, I might consider it a possible solution. That’s impossible to guarantee though, so dangerous in the long run. Wasnt the last insane shooter so obviously looney, though, that he belonged in a mental ward instead of a university? And just how really crazy was the last one? If only it was as easy to commit them as it was Brittney Spears.
Would love to see that on a bumper sticker.
Can you find that link? This looks real ugly. Schumer might have a field day with prescription drug makers.
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The perp's GF was a psych grad student. She said he was normal, even after he came home with this tat in July '07 + more:
That's unlikely. Cho was a parnoid schizophrenic. The NIU perp got those tats in July '07 and put on a big smile about them. He had already been known to have cut himself and was facinated by the same in prisoners. Note the tattoo artist's description of the guy contrasted sharply from the description by his GF and NI grad advisor/prof. The GF rarely made I contact during her interviews and the prof refused to appear on camera. All they showed of him was an ear and neck hair. This had been developing for some time and none of the "experts" noticed.
links between mental illness and school violencehow about hearings on links between mental illness and Democrats in office? :') Thanks neverdem.
I think it was Paxil, but close enough.
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