From Digg:
Gun Owners of America wants crazy people to get firearmsThe NRA is supporting a bill to ensure that mental-health records are entered into a FBI database that is used for background checks of gun buyers. Virginia-based Gun Owners of America warns that the proposal could “block millions of additional, honest gun owners from buying firearms.”
OK, so, lets not give guns to crazy folks, right. Well, it’s not that easy. If you said, “Lets not let convicted
felons buy guns” a lot of people would agree with you. But, what if you were exonerated from your charges years down the road? What then? And how would you feel about not letting someone buy a firearm for protection because they maybe had a breakdown twenty or so years ago, and then that person was killed. They could have protected themselves if thy had that firearm. What if we turn it around, and right after that someone comes in, passes a background check with not as much as a parking ticket or a fight in school, and commits a mass-murder with that weapon?
I know that it will come as a shock to many kids, teens, and young police officers, but a computer can’t catch everything. Sometimes, ya gotta use your gut.
