(August 19, 2011 at 10:10 am)Rhythm Wrote: Mentally disturbed criminals with violent records are already prohibited from purchasing guns.
Well....you'd think so but the NRA has other ideas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/us/03g...odayspaper
Quote:Across the country, states are increasingly allowing people like Mr. French, who lost their firearm rights because of mental illness, to petition to have them restored.
A handful of states have had such restoration laws on their books for some time, but with little notice, more than 20 states have passed similar measures since 2008. This surge can be traced to a law passed by Congress after the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech that was actually meant to make it harder for people with mental illness to get guns.
As a condition of its support for the measure, the National Rifle Association extracted a concession: the inclusion of a mechanism for restoring firearms rights to those who lost them for mental health reasons.
In fact, if you read the 2d amendment as the gun nuts want it read:
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.. Looking up the word "infringed" seems to mean any restriction at all and the 2d amendment says nothing about crazy people... or criminals... being excluded for that matter.
