Sorry John...

Sorry John - like you and all funny man, but sometimes you must hate having to feign ignorance for the sake of a bit.  You know; "I have to be anti-gun, so I will have to ignore any other relevant facts".  I expect that from real media, but had always thought you knew better.

How was he able to buy a gun? Maybe because no one ever really took the action necessary to document the years of trouble that Alexis had been in?  Because we have expanded the deinfitionof acceptable behavior so far these days that theonly way someone gets the attention or punishment they need is to commit a heinous act?  Thn after the fact we go "how did no one notice this?"  They did and chose to trivilaize it until it ended up killing 12 people.  Who might we blame that on?

The NICS system works based on the information that is put into it.  It is not gun owners' or gun sellers' faults that Alexis had been in trouble numerous times yet no one ever saw fit to hold him accountable, to incarcerate or treat him in a manner commensurate with his behavior and that would have created a record.  That is not an argument against guns, but an argument against lenient and lax standards of treatment, enforcement or prosecution.  The current system or even the one that Manchin-Schumer-Toomey would have created, would not help if the mental health treatment and criminal justice systems do not do their part in protecting people from themselves or others.  Just nod your head at the young criminal or crazy person, avert your eyes and figure "They'll get over it".

Round two for you:  You and Aussie Hugh Jackman with your "Why could Australia ban guns and become a Utopian paradise, but America can't" hugfest.  Perhaps a little read over this would help you see how far off you are.  A prominent quote: "In 2002 -- five years after enacting its gun ban -- the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime."  But data are of little use when one knows the truth - for all the liberal religious mockery that goes on, it seems that the idea of faith - belief without evidence, the "it must be so" - is not lost on you.



And the fact that there's that little thing about a constitution?  Well, we know how some folks will not let them bother them.  While we keep making up rights that are not in there out of little substance, why not ignore a few that are.