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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More detail.

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/police-katy-mom-killed-daughters-to-make-husband-suffer-8524499
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Sheriff-Mom-killed-daughters-to-punish-husband-8333148.php

Police visited the house over a dozen times in response to mom's mental health crises, but there was no process to separate her from her guns.  She even applied for a concealed carry license - which was rejected - but still not separated from the guns.

"At one point, she stood over the girls and tried to shoot with an empty gun. Then she went inside, reloaded, and came outside to shoot Taylor one more time."

This is the price we all pay so that gun owners can avoid any reasonable safety restrictions.  It's not worth it.[/quote]

What do you mean there was no process? This is a failure to enforce existing gun control laws. Under federal law, her right to own a firearm should have been taken away due to her mental condition and she would have had to surrender her weapons. They knew she owned a gun through her CCW application.

If Texas authorities refused to act on her mental health issues, how would that have changed if they maintained a gun ownership registry?[/quote]

The registration lets authorities know which people with mental illnesses have unlawful guns.  Maybe you're suggesting Texas also needs a specific law [i]requiring[/i] (not just allowing) authorities to take steps whenever they discover someone with a mental illness has a gun.  I'm all for that change too.[/quote]

LMAO!

If you need a new law B to ensure enforcement of law A, what law would you need to ensure the enforcement of law B, a new law C? Churn that one through your brain cells.

Enforcement is always selective and voluntary. Police officer sees someone doing a "rolling stop" at a stop sign, what he does next depends on a variety of factors. What you can't claim in this scenario, however, is that we don't have enough laws against running stop signs. Similarly, if an act of gun violence could have been prevented if the authorities took action on laws already on the books using information they already have access to, you can't argue that what we need is more gun control laws to prevent such crimes.

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