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Agree that it would be good to go after people who lied on their 4473s for straw purchases, drug use, misdemeanors or greater relating to domestic violence, threats or anger management issues. and, there are also a huge number of people who own guns, have been clinically diagnosed with mental issues involving psychosis, delusions, paranoia, threatening behavior, inappropriate aggression and violence to others or self-harm, but who have never been formally adjudicated in a court in any way that would bar them from owning a gun.  All told, those numbers are easily in the millions of people who own guns, who are being allowed to buy guns, but who really shouldn't be allowed to have guns.

The problem, however, is that we have completely hamstrung the people responsible for checking and enforcing it.  They do not have any easy way to detect straw purchases, because there is no persistent, searchable database of purchases.  And the systems also lack the connections and data to make appropriate determinations on many of the other issues as well.  And, it's not just crippled investigations and prosecutions, the courts do far too little as well.  Far too many purchases just get rubberstamped in the 4473 process for lack of adequate systems to do appropriate background checks and tracking of gun purchases.[/quote]

A good reply. Thank you.

We have to stop pushing the narrative of someone suddenly snapping and becoming homicidal.  Nearly everyone who makes it to the level of committing murder has a long history of escalating problems.  The left and the right like to cherry pick examples that feed their cognitive dissonance.  One shooter might have had a conservative upbringing and the next one might be “trans”. There’s no nexus there except they were almost always badly patented (often abused), irrespective of politics or demographics.

Sociopaths are not that common, but we’ve lost the will to deal with them. That should have never become a partisan dividing line.  It wasn’t in the JFK or Clinton years.  [/quote]

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