More gun control, huh?

So finally we hear that James Holmes, mister shoot-em-up, was being treated for some sort of disorder by a psychiatrist at the student health center at the University of Colorado Denver’s Anschutz Medical Campus. The good doctor, Lynne Fenton, whose area of expertise is psychotherapy and neurobiological schizophrenia, had warned the university that they shouldn’t let Holmes back on campus after he withdrew from his courses. So obviously, the university was aware of his behavioral problems.

You know kind of like Sheriff Dupnik and his deputies were aware that the Tucson spree shooter, Jared Loughnor, had behavior problems. I’m seeing a pattern here. There are restrictions and regulations in place to keep people like this from owning firearms, but it looks to me like people are purposely doing end runs around their responsibilities in making the gun laws work.

Our buddy, Blanka sends this link to an article by this fellow who admits all of the above, but still calls for more gun control;

Gun and weapons manufacturing is big business in America—for foreign and domestic consumption. Republicans, who always back big money, use the argument of protecting Second Amendment rights to stifle any sensible legislation that could limit the damage of these senseless killings. And Democrats—ever fearful of being called too “liberal” and weak—are afraid to spark a serious debate about gun control—let alone enact legislation to address it. Don’t expect another Brady Bill anytime soon.

In this Colorado case, the ease with which Mr. Holmes, apparently, bought bombs, bullets and guns mirrors the ease many of the other killers in the aforementioned massacres got their ammunition. In terms of the bullets Mr. Holmes, reportedly, purchased them on the Internet. Doesn’t it seem somewhat crazy—we’ll get to the insanity angle next—that one can buy bullets in this manner, especially, in this age where stolen credit cards and identity theft is so prevalent?

But he skips right over the fact that if the University of Colorado had done their job and told police that Holmes was unbalanced, maybe they would have investigated and entered into the national database that he wasn’t worthy of owning firearms, he couldn’t have bought them. Buying ammunition on the internet is a nonstarter if Holmes didn’t have guns with which to shoot bullets. I’m guessin’.

So, in both the Loughner and the Holmes incident, if the guardians of our community had done that which they expect us to do, legal gun purchases would have been avoided. So, unless these dinguses are ready to criminalize ineptness, more gun laws won’t work.

The author, Colin Benjamin, and all of those half-wits who subscribe to this bonehead theory of taking all of these guns from people who haven’t shot anyone, well, they’re just hoping that government will do for them what they don’t have the guts to do, namely reporting nuts who want to own guns. The national data base only spits out what’s been put into it. But the Care Bear crowd don’t want to tell the world about nuts – it’s much easier to rage against Big Guns and the NRA bugaboos than to be a responsible member of society.

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