Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Needed--Universal Background Checks


In this video link, Gabby Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly goes to an Arizona gun story, buys a gun (video camera in pocket), and fills out the form for a background check.  The purpose of the video is to support “universal background checks” and show that it’s an easy process.  Kelly answers a lot of questions and then comes home with a new gun (to add to the other guns he owns).  I assume those answers went into a computer and no red flags were found.  The check is better than nothing, but I don’t think we yet have a system that flags all the things that need to be checked.  I think the mental health community needs to do a lot of talking.

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