Wrong focus, let's bankrupt some irresponsible gun shop

[Lizzie Poppet]

4. It's not the gun shop that's culpable.

It's (in part) the fact that the list of things that can cause a background check to come back negative is too narrow. I strongly advocate expanding the scope of disqualifying conditions to include a broader range of mental health diagnoses, things like domestic violence indictments and related court orders, etc. The signals were in place to deny this murderer his weapon purchase.* Those signals need to be in the system.

* Okay, sure: he might still have armed himself via private transfer...but at least that transfer could have been made illegal (universal background checks...), and the person making an illegal sale prosecuted.