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Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
14. Right now nothing is being done
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 12:28 PM
Sep 2013

Time and again these mentally ill people are allowed to buy weapons and ammo and innocent people die. You have to have a license to drive a car, the car needs to be registered. Yes, people drive without a license and drive unregistered cars, but the difference is that they can be arrested.

This issue hit home for me hard this week. My son will be working at the Shipyard on Monday, for the same company this guy worked for, had the guy lasted another week with his hallucinations, my son would have been working with him, staying in the same hotel. People knew he was unstable. BEFORE he bought the gun. People knew he was paranoid. BEFORE he bought the gun. Yet he was able to walk into a gun store in a state he was visiting and purchase a weapon he then used to kill 12 people.

VTECH shooter, was known to be having mental problems. Aroura shooter, known to have problems. Newtown shooter, known to have mental problems.

This person had a history with two states for gun related issues. BEFORE he bought this gun.

I work for an insurance company.... when they process an application they easily find out of there is a menta health history and investigate more. Yet for some reason we can't do the same for people buying weapons.

When is enough, enough?

Will we stop when it gets bad enough that everyone has the problem become personal?

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