Posted on 07/26/2015 5:51:28 AM PDT by Zakeet
John Russell Houser was deeply troubled long before he shot 11 people in a movie theater in Louisiana, but decades of mental problems didn't keep him from buying the handgun he used.
Despite obvious and public signs of mental illness — most importantly, a Georgia judge's order committing him to mental health treatment against his will as a danger to himself and others in 2008 — Houser was able to walk into an Alabama pawn shop six years later and buy a .40-caliber handgun.
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Court records reviewed by The Associated Press strongly suggest Houser should have been reported to the state and federal databases used to keep people with serious mental illnesses from buying firearms, legal experts said.
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1. Depends on how you define crazy. The collectivists think that you are crazy so should you have your firearms taken away? Everyone should be allowed the right to defend their lives, their family’s lives, and their friends and others even if they are crazy or a criminal. If the crazy or the criminal go out and mis-use it the others that carry will turn around and shoot them dead or end up in the hospital. The fast response to crime is by those who are the intended victims.
2. It used to be legal for everyone to own and use full-auto firearms. The Swiss are allowed to do so. Why not us?
5. Firearms suppressors are also known as silencers even thought they can silence one, but simply suppress the sound to a certain degree.
Sure! Why not? Let’s do it!
Crime would go to near zero just like it did in Kennesaw, Georgia.
25 years murder-free in ‘Gun Town USA’
http://www.wnd.com/2007/04/41196/
The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city’s crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township’s crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
Police Lt. Craig Graydon said: “When the Kennesaw law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime … and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then. We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area.” Kennesaw is just north of Atlanta.
Everyone know “that” jerk is dead.
Regardless, his lying on the form makes his purchase illegal. The news story was trying to play it like it was legal for someone with mental illness to pass the background check. It is not.
Shep Smith is aging fast.
AIDS will do that to a person.
Wow.
Yours is a compelling story.
That you much for sharing!
A compelling story. A compelling story. It just seems so ...strange....to hear that described that way. It wasn’t really a compelling story. It was hell on earth. It was walking on coals. For years. Thank God I’m past it. My boys. I hope they’ve dealt with it ok now. On the surface they have.
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