-The laws, as they exist, allowed Adam Lanza to use an assault weapon with large-capacity magazines to slaughter twenty-six innocents – twenty children and six adults – including heroic school staffers who died trying to protect the children they were responsible for.
-The laws, as they exist, allowed Jared Lee Loughner to shoot eighteen people, murdering six, with a pistol that had a high capacity magazine.
-The laws, as they exist, allowed Seung-Hui Cho to shoot forty nine people at Virginia Tech, murdering thirty two, including a Jewish professor who heroically died while saving many of his students’ lives.
The vetting done by any hiring company, credit card issuer, insurer, or the like is far more extensive than what’s proposed for prospective gun owners.
charliehall –
It is not legal to sell guns to violent felons (or any felons) or mentally ill people. What is missing is the ability to detect that the buyer is a felon and/or insane due to the lack of compulsory background checks in all sales.