Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nut with a gun shoots crowd at parade in affluent Chicago suburb. Once again, every Liberal gun-control nostrum failed:
AR-15 style rifles have been banned in Highland Park for a decade (buyer purchased in a different city). Gun ban didn’t work.
The rifle was factory-made, not a ‘ghost gun’ built in the garage. Ghost gun ban didn’t work.
The buyer needed a reference to obtain his Permit to Purchase (his father lol signed). Requiring references didn’t work.
The buyer was over 18 at time of purchase. Raising the minimum age didn’t work.
The buyer passed the background check. Background checks didn’t work.
The buyer planned farther in advance than any ‘cooling off’ period. Waiting period didn’t work.
The buyer threatened to kill his family but his family refused to press charges or commit him to a mental institution (it was handled by a mental health worker). Outpatient mental health treatment didn’t work.
Firearms ownership is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution, but not everyone is entitled to enjoy that right. Historically, criminals, children, and the insane were prohibited. This guy falls into the third category but Liberals have so badly messed up civil commitment law that we can’t stop crazies from buying guns.
We don’t need to take the rifles off the streets, we need to take the crazies off the streets. Time for another look at how mental health treatment is failing in America.
Joe Doakes
<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThere are two different supplies of shooters in this country; crazies, and habitual criminals.<\/p>
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The solution for one has nothing to do with dealing with the other.<\/p>
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And none of them will be solved by disarming the law abiding citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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