Police Chief Embarrasses Lindsey Graham At Gun Hearing

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3. Graham is a piece of shit, and is not a good advocate for his position.

Because his position is ACTUALLY to stonewall and prevent any/all attempts to inhibit access to arms.

But the Police Chief's position is complete and utter horseshit. This is not a 'paper crime'. These are ineligible recipients committing perjury, seeking a firearm.

In all cases that aren't some sort of reporting snafu, like mistaken identity (which is rare), this is a person that KNOWS they are ineligible (felons/domestic violence conviction/adjudicated incompetent) committing perjury in an attempt to access a firearm.

It is CRITICAL to prosecute that person, because their next step is grey/black market solutions to obtain a firearm. That person is up to some shit, and I highly doubt they are going to stop with a NICS denial from a FFL. They are going to continue to seek a firearm by other means. Toss their asses in jail, and you change the game. If it's a mentally disqualified individual, you have a chance to have them evaluated, and possibly get them some treatment. If it's a felon, blammo, parole violation, probation violation, you name it. Get them off the street, because they are up to some bullshit.


Graham is an asshole because he's characterizing this as an either/or. We can ALSO do universal background checks, but it STILL remains critical that we prosecute these self-identifying ineligible recipients for perjury, and whatever else we can get them for. Otherwise it's a missed opportunity, like the state of Virginia failing to report the mental health disqualification for Cho, at the VT massacre. Or failure to report Loughner, that fuck bought his gun from a store, passed a background check.

Every opportunity to exclude dangerous people MUST be pursued, in ADDITION to universal background checks. I am extremely disappointed this police chief would outright dismiss this opportunity. It's a rare, and done-deal packaged up with a ribbon on it opportunity to do something about people pursuing access to firearms that have no lawful business doing so.