{"id":61062,"date":"2015-07-27T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61062"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:44:51","slug":"nics-is-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61062","title":{"rendered":"NICS is not working"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Associated Press<\/a> article reports that which most of us already suspected in regards to John Russell Houser’s possession of a handgun that he used last week in a Lafayette, Louisiana theater to murder two women and injure nine others before offing himself. <\/p>\n

Houser was denied a concealed weapon permit by the local sheriff in 2006 because of charges against him about arson and domestic violence, even though he hadn’t been convicted of those charges. In 2008, he was involuntarily committed to a mental health facility by a judge, but it appears that information was never entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, upon which rests the safety and security of the American public.<\/p>\n

Looking back at the shootings that have been in the media lately, it seems that the people who are the gatekeepers between nuts and their ability to purchase guns are failing us. <\/p>\n

Jared Louchner, the fellow who shot Congresswoman Gabriella Giffords along with several others had numerous encounters with local authorities, but they never bothered to arrest him for his behavior, so when he went to buy a pistol, he sailed through the NICS process. <\/p>\n

In Aurora, Colorado, James Holmes was being treated for his disorders by a professional who didn’t bother to tell anyone else that he was a public danger, so he was able to purchase several firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition without even a peep from the NICS folks.<\/p>\n

At Virginia Tech, Seung-Hui Cho had been treated since his junior high school days for anxiety disorders, he was ordered by a judge to treatment when he was caught stalking two girls at Virginia Tech, but because he wasn’t institutionalized, his disorders weren’t reported to the NICS folks. <\/p>\n

At Sandy Hook, Adam Lanza had been treated for his mental illnesses for years, but again it was unreported to NICS and if he hadn’t been too impatient to wait out his three-day cooling off period, he probably would have been able to buy a gun instead of murdering his mother and stealing hers.<\/p>\n

In Charleston, South Carolina, Dylann Roof lied on his federal firearms form, and because the report of his arrest for drug abuse and drug possession hadn’t yet made it to the folks at NICS, his purchase of a firearm was delayed only one day.<\/p>\n

So, we now have people in Congress and local legislators calling for more extensive background checks for folks who buy firearms, you know, even though it is the system is broken, so we have to make sure that people who are legally allowed to buy guns must jump through more hoops, while the folks with evil intents won’t bother themselves with that process.<\/p>\n

If I was a legislator, I’d find a way to force the healthcare and law enforcement communities do their jobs before I heap more restrictions on Americans. But, I’m not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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