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HankB

S&W6946 wrote: . . . In my 32 years LE experience, I am not aware of any database that captures information on mental health issues . . . filling out the required form to purchase a gun relies on the honesty of the individual filling the form out to answer it correctly. Its easy to lie about mental issues and not ever get caught.

And if someone HAS been "adjudicated as mentally defective" and lies . . . can they be held legally accountable? I mean, they've already been judged to be mental cases, so can you hold a mental case responsible for being untruthful?

This isn't the first time a certified mental case purchased a gun & did evil . . . think back to the Stockton school shootings by Patrick Purdy . . . he was getting around $700 a month in Social Security payments on the grounds of mental disability, and yet police (IIRC, LAPD) repeatedly gave him permission to buy a gun in seeming violation of the Federal law which prohibits sales to mental defectives . . . so the locals let him violate the law - you could persuasively argue they enabled him to violate the law - and the Feds gave him the money to do so . . . and we got the AWB as a result of his actions.

HankB

Fourman,

Confusion and indecision, divided command, overlapping jurisdictions, different radio frequencies, different ROEs . . . all of these were factors in the poor response at Columbine, on 9/11, and, it would seem, at Virginia Tech.

With plenty of cops (including SWAT!) already on-campus, I find it unbelieveable that the perp was able to have his way with the people in the engineering building for around a half hour without so much as being confronted by LEOs . . .

HankB

I weighed in on MSNBC's "discussion" section . . . I just had to respond to some of the rhetoric there. Doubt that I'll convince a frothing-at-the-mouth anti, but here's what I wrote:

Barely a year ago, the Virginia General Assembly defeated a measure which would have allowed LICENSED individuals to carry concealed firearms on campus. At the time, a spokesman for Virginia Tech praised the measure's defeat, proclaiming that prohibiting LICENSED individuals from being armed on campus made the place safer. I wonder how he feels now about the Victim Disarmament Zone that is Virginia Tech?

What it comes down to is that the only person you can depend on to protect you - is YOU. Take Virginia Tech as an example: even though police were already on campus, in force, due to the earlier shooting, the perp was roaming the halls, murdering people in the engineering building for up to a HALF HOUR, and was NEVER confronted by law enforcement!

And they were already on campus in force!!

Cops on the scene did nothing to stop the perp . . . and the college community - including faculty - was prohibited by law from having the means to defend themselves.

Shades of Columbine . . .

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