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Gun Control Reform Activism

Ptah

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4. This report is a reaction to the Virginia Tech Massacre. Now Arizona needs to respond.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 05:57 PM

Mar 2013

The process of identifying flaws in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
began after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, when the U.S. Justice Department started to award grants to states
to improve their records programs. Federal officials recognized the need to improve the database in part because
the shooter, who killed 32 people and then himself at Virginia Tech, was able to legally buy a gun from a federally
licensed firearms dealer despite being mentally ill.

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Flaws in Arizona criminal-background-records system imperil public, study finds [View all] Ptah Mar 2013 OP

That's disturbing. There really is a lot of evidence that the system doesn't work very well. Hoyt Mar 2013 #1

This report is a reaction to the Virginia Tech Massacre. Now Arizona needs to respond. Ptah Mar 2013 #4

Well, it is not the "system" that fails dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #2

The system can be improved. Ptah Mar 2013 #5

The criminal background check is and should be the first line of defense ... spin Mar 2013 #3

Jared Loughner pleaded guilty. I don't know how much the court costs might be. Ptah Mar 2013 #6

That's true and you may be right and the cost will not be excessive. ... spin Mar 2013 #7

I agree that the tragedies cost us dearly. Ptah Mar 2013 #8

Unfortunately such ideas are difficult to get passed into law at the national level. ... spin Mar 2013 #9