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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Did you punch that dolt in the face?
“Catch 22”
God,the left is incorporating cynical (graveyard) humor into their ideology!
Stalin.Mao,and Hitler were masters of the genre.
I’m impressed.
Actually, that gun grabber was quite proud of his idea. But it did illustrate the fact that most gun grabbers do believe that there is no reason for a rational person to own a gun. Therefore, any one who wants to own one is mentally ill.
Now, how many MDs would you think would take on the liability of certifying somebody as OK to carry, and how much do you think they would charge for the examination?
I checked a number of other sources. All refer to the original CNN story. Thanks again, suijuris!
Remember that to a liberal all non liberals are mentally ill. Who defines mentally ill? Such broad definitions opens a Pandora’s box and I am sorry to see the Bush administration fall into these feel good measures that restrict our rights. But the elites can’t help themselves, anything that guarantees their status is what they are for. Another issue besides immigration in which they are on the wrong side.
Just another ‘reasonable’ gun control measure designed to severely limit gun ownership.
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