Congresswoman shot in Arizona

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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

People who make their bones by standing on other people's graves sicken me. We had a law, banning people under 21 from having ANY blood alcohol content in their blood while driving rammed through, because a father with money blamed other people for his son being a drunken lout, who took two of his friends with him when he drove into a river.

That is the most effective, and really the only, tactic the anti-gun lobby has. They are dependent on emotional arguments swaying people. There are plenty of people who will support the anti-gun position, but when the argument is a logical one they can't get a majority. Hell, they are still trying to use the Virginia Tech massacre as a battering ram to close the so called "gun show loophole", even though that murdering bastard didn't buy any guns at a gun show.

Hopefully once cooler heads prevail people will realize that this murderer (and the VT murderer) are in the middle of two ideas that counter each other. Obviously guns shouldn't be sold to mentally unstable people, but medical privacy laws also mean that a legitimate gun retailer following all the rules isn't going to know about a diagnosis of mental instability even if such a diagnosis has been made.