[lit-ideas] Nutcase Control (law)
- From: "Lawrence Helm"<lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:21:48 +0000
Well looky here. There's already a Federal Law that would have prevented Cho
getting his guns legally -- had it been complied with:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/us/21guns.html?em&ex=1177300800&en=fb403a48ef158b97&ei=5087%0A
The Virginia Law isn't quite up to Federal Standards, but Mr. Bonnie, the
Director of the University of Virginia Institute on Law, Psychiatry and Public
Policy says "We are going to fix this." But note that as defective as the
Virginia law is, Virginia is the leading state for reporting nutcases to the
local police. Just making laws apparently doesn't get them automatically
complied with. Mike, did you know this? You're going to have to go well
beyond just making your gun law to make yourself perfectly safe from guns.
Apparently the current Federal procedure is for someone privy to the
psychiatric health of an individual to notify local police. The article goes
on to say Carolyn McCarthy, Democrat of New York, has been pushing a bill to
require states to automate their criminal history records so computer databases
used to conduct background checks on gun buyers are more complete." Well done
Carolyn McCarthy!
Whew! If more states comply with the Federal Law and Carolyn McCarthy's bill
gets passed maybe Mike & his buddies can forgo their plans to organize all the
Pacifist, Anti-Gun, LeftWingers into a Paramilitary force and conduct house to
house searches in San Jacinto to take away all our guns.
Lawrence
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