"The whole country...knows the problem was there weren't enough good guys with guns."

[aolwien]

-Wayne Lapierre


National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre on Sunday slammed "elite" focus on firearms in the wake of last week's Navy Yard shooting, saying there are bigger issues in play, including the need for more secure military facilities.

"The whole country...knows the problem was there weren't enough good guys with guns," LaPierre said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "When the good guys with guns got there, it stopped."

LaPierre said politicians and the media wrongly turned back to the gun control issue following the deadly shooting near the Capitol, when instead the country should emphasize reforming the mental health system and enforcing laws already on the books.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/09/lapierre-elite-firearms-focus-is-misplaced-173225.html

[G_j]

1. can we have LaPierre's mental health

evaluated?

[Loudly]

2. Wayne LaPierre has mental health problems.

Disarm him.

[safeinOhio]

3. I thought he got his 4F

because of "emotional" problems.

[aikoaiko]

4. There is opportunity to enhance mental health criteria on NICS

Of course it must be tempered by privacy rights, limited to dangerous folks, and due process, but there is a lot that can be done.

Once someone is denied a firearm through NICS due to mental health reasons, that name and address could be forwarded to social services or law enforcement.

And all the felons who get denied should be in handcuffs.

[NYC_SKP]

6. There were at least four failed opportunities to prevent this tragedy before the day it happened.

I agree with you and would add these five points of failure.

-- In 2004 for shooting out tires he should have lost his guns and ownership rights.

-- In 2010 the same thing for discharging a firearm, which was clearly loaded and improperly stored.

-- His employer should have screened and eliminated him from candidates for employment or severely limited the terms of his employment.

-- And the Navy should have screened him and banned him from entering any of their property.

So simple.

Yet the focus by many ends up being how to kill the second amendment or otherwise prevent anyone and everyone from getting even a basic pump shotgun.

Crazy world.

[bowens43]

5. one of the dumbest arguments made by the gun fetishists.....