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Moonjay posted...

Like I got unwillingly put in a mental hospital for psychosis but I wasn't even a danger to others. And that's great, I needed it. I'm also not allowed to own a gun for five years from the last time I was in the hospital. Also fine. And yet people who beat their children, people who stalk and rape, people who are known to the police as dangerous don't get mental health care AND get to keep their guns. Madness.

That's a breakdown and an overall indictment of the NICS background check and law enforcement responsibility. That's one of the first things that should really be revised. Revised, reworded, and more importantly, enforced. I believe it was the Stoneman Douglas shooting where we eventually learned that the police had been called to the shooter's home almost 50 times in a decade, a peer counselor and student resource officer had been informed of a suicide attempt and the desire to buy a gun, 2 counselors and a resource officer recommended a commitment for a mental evaluation, a youtube comment was investigated by the FBI, the FBI tip line was informed days before the shooting but "protocol wasn't followed" so the tip got buried and the complete lack of action of the Sheriff's Department.

Laws were already on the books but federal and state law enforcement failed. Before adding more laws, why not fix the ones already on the books?
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