Comments on: Slow Progress On Guns And The Mentally Ill

One Year After Virginia Tech, Still Only A Fraction Of Those Declared Mentally Ill Get To FBI Database

[libsrweak]

How about before any person is allowed to buy a gun
a 30 day waiting period be instituted that includes a full background check to see if this person should be allowed to own a firearm.

I don''''t see any problem with this,certainly is much better that trying to take firearms away from the
law abiding citizens out there.



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Posted by ratchow1962 at 12:02 PM : Apr 17, 2008
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we already have that law...the problem is we are very relaxed with that law..too many political correctness involved.

[libsrweak]

Let me say this again,I am not in favor of punishing law abiding gun owners in the US anymore I do for law abiding gun owners in Canada,but just want to make getting a firearms much more diffucult for the criminals and the mentally ill persons in this country as well as your country.




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Posted by ratchow1962 at 02:07 PM : Apr 17, 2008
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easy..ENFORCE THE LAW..instead of trying to find every excuse and reason to CIRCUMVENT THE LAW..

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gunownerdan

Just for the record here,I live in Canada,but do love and have a great respect for the US and and sickened by the senseless violence that as taken place such as the tragedy at Virginia Tech as well as many others across your great nation.

I can agree with the instant background check though as this story says,in 35 states they don''t do background checks at gunshows.How about if we close that loophole as well.


Let me say this again,I am not in favor of punishing law abiding gun owners in the US anymore I do for law abiding gun owners in Canada,but just want to make getting a firearms much more diffucult for the criminals and the mentally ill persons in this country as well as your country.

The most difficult part of trying to separate persons who are "disturbed" and "threatening" from guns is that so many of those who OWN guns are "disturbed" and "threatening." Charlton Heston brandishing a firearm above his head and ranting about "cold dead hands" does little to inspire our confidence in the sanity of gun holders. Listening or reading comments from persons bent on protecting the rest of humanity by carrying weapons on campuses just in case another nutcase shows up in an auditorium, actually bragging about the possibility of unleashing massive firepower in an enclosed space jammed with human bodies, does little to help us determine which are the persons with guns to be avoided and which are to be encouraged. America''s love affair with the gun needs a divorce.

[gunownerdan]

threatened, not threated.

[gunownerdan]

ratchow1962,
I don''t agree with a 30-day waiting period. Background checks can and should be done in minutes.
What if someone''s life has been threated by a dangerous person?
They should not be forced to wait a month before they can pick up their gun to defend themselves.

[ratchow1962]

gunownerdan

See if you agree with this.

How about before any person is allowed to buy a gun
a 30 day waiting period be instituted that includes a full background check to see if this person should be allowed to own a firearm.

I don''t see any problem with this,certainly is much better that trying to take firearms away from the
law abiding citizens out there.

[payasyougo]

"One year ago Wednesday, Holly Sherman lost her daughter Leslie at Virginia Tech...."

"Holly Sherman agrees gun control is only part of the answer. The key, she says, is identifying people as disturbed as Cho long before they buy a gun..."

...identifying people as disturbed as Cho long before they buy a gun..."

Or build a bomb, or a molotof coctail, or load their children in a car and drive it into a lake, or drive into a crowd near the street, or fly their small airplane into a building, ...

[gunownerdan]

Anyone with a history of severe mental illness or violence should never be allowed to have guns.
That''s just asking for trouble.
But the fact is no law can keep bad people from harming others.
Good people need to be able to protect themselves if they choose to do so.

"The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned, while they neglect the means of self defense."
- Thomas Paine

[michellem99-2009]

I am for the guns being out of the paws that hsve no right to bear them..So the constution does give us rights and those rights mean we who can''t bear arms must not..I DON''T FOR BEING BLIND.Why was this man allowed a gun in the first place. I know if people would learn from this..then deal with why they must have that gun..Please put waiting peroids on them..