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In reply to the discussion: Suspect in Botched Shooting Bought Gun Legally Despite Mental Illness [View all]slackmaster
(60,567 posts)22. The CDC has plenty of good stats. Roll your own query at WISQARS, then spin the results as you wish.
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Suspect in Botched Shooting Bought Gun Legally Despite Mental Illness [View all]
FarCenter
Feb 2013
OP
The story has a positive outcome. Ms. Boland will either be incarcerated or committed.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#1
Unfortunately, they don't all end like that -- and the faculty members are lucky she didn't have NRA
Hoyt
Feb 2013
#3
The only way we will have a positive outcome will be if the laws are changed
Bjorn Against
Feb 2013
#4
People who are committed because they are not mentally competent to stand trial do get treatment
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#5
Both my parents worked in the mental health field, don't tell me I am misinformed.
Bjorn Against
Feb 2013
#9
Federal law is very clear on that. It's illegal for "any person" to transfer a firearm to...
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#15
A lot of DUers are enamored of the power of Japanese police to stop and question anyone at any time
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#7
Actually, unless you are very old or very young the greatest threat to your civil liberties...
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#17
Not really. You cherry picked and left stuff out. But that's okay. Carry on. nt
laundry_queen
Feb 2013
#48
I've shown you the way to water. It's free. Drink it if you are so inclined.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#50
The CDC has plenty of good stats. Roll your own query at WISQARS, then spin the results as you wish.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#22
So I'll walk through metal detectors, allow myself and possessions to be searched etc etc....
Junkdrawer
Feb 2013
#26
You obviously don't have a good grasp of statistics and probability either
Bjorn Against
Feb 2013
#25
You only think it is a poor analysis because it does not back up your talking point
Bjorn Against
Feb 2013
#33
Tell that to all the gun cultists that tote to be prepared, yet do not carry a defibrillator or jaws
Hoyt
Feb 2013
#38
Some states treat an accepted defense based on mental illness the same as a committment,
HereSince1628
Feb 2013
#30
I would have thought anyone who threatened to assassinate a president would be in NCIS
Lone_Star_Dem
Feb 2013
#35
A person who did that would have to have been convicted for it, or committed to a mental...
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#39
That is definitely not the same thing as being adjudicated as mentally incompetent
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#45
That's not completely true. The FBI also contributes a prohibited list to the NICS
HereSince1628
Feb 2013
#49