The dad passed the background check, and loaned the gun to the 20-yr old kid.
Would the kid have passed the background check - I think so, he wasn’t on the radar yet.
And how about at the gun ranges he went to. Do they have any kind of check? I know some do, with signed declarations, and maybe even a ‘sponsor’.
I saw it reported that the dad called the cops to say that his son and the rifle were “missing,” on the day of the shooting. I don’t know if “loaned” applies.
Human history shows us that humans are pretty nasty individually and as a group.
This is the sad truth that the left want to ignore -- they think that somehow human nature can be controlled. They are fools.
We can only prevent evil but force, sometimes, and after loss of human life.
We can also learn from history.
To my eye, they knew something was wrong with that “kid” of theirs because they called the cops when they couldn’t find him, and probably couldn’t find the gun either.
He was living in the same house with them, and I have no doubt that he went on long screaming, hateful, illogical rants against Republicans and Conservatives that alarmed even his parents.
I am not one who believes the parents should pay for the sins of the child (or vice versa) but in this case they had to know this guy living in their house was dangerously unhinged.
Why else would they call the police because their 20 year old “kid” “couldn’t be found”?
At the very least, they should have had the guns locked up, if it DID belong to the father. (I don’t know if that is true, but you probably saw it somewhere I didn’t, and it isn’t implausible.
Of course, if they DID lock it up, this sounds like the type of person who could become violent because of it, even against his own parents. So there is that.
You bring up an important point. The assassin had no criminal record or a record of mental illness. He also met the minimum age requirement of 18. He would have passed a background check.
These anti-gun laws are political theater. Criminals don’t obey laws. For the same reason that anti-drug laws don’t significantly deter drug users, gun restrictions don’t prevent people from using guns in crimes.
If politicians were serious about crime, they would make the use of a weapon in commission of a crime a very serious charge resulting in extended incarceration.