re: #96 Holidays are Family Fun Time

No, we can’t keep every criminal or whacko from getting whatever weapon they want. We can enforce the laws and fund the databases we have in place. I remember a while back there was some bru-ha-ha over some database of the mentally ill and the gun-checking system. They were underfunded, understaffed and the protocol for health care to report was never finalized. It was a total cluster and one of the recent shooters fell into the category that would have been prevented from getting a legal firearm if it had been working.

It’s such an emotionally charged issue and politicans are so concerned about votes and lobbying dollars, I’m not sure it will ever be hammered out.

Yes. But if in the wake of these mass shootings we emphasized the holes in the background check process, things might actually get done.