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arizona1

09/02/19 4:34 PM

#324497 RE: ForReal #324495

I suppose in your simplistic way, you're trying to say that background checks don't work. I tend to agree that it's too small a band aid for the ammosexual's fixation on assault weapons.

New Zealand got it exactly right and we should follow their lead.




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arizona1

09/10/19 2:03 PM

#325248 RE: ForReal #324495

Seth allegedly failed a federal background check.

Texas mass shooting averted: Police able to find man after background checks delayed his plans

One of the favorite talking points of the militia movement and, by extension, of do-nothing Republican politicians is that tightening background checks for people looking to buy guns would be useless. It wouldn't really save lives, they say.

Yet another new case out of Texas once again disproves that. Local NBC news reporter Merideth Yeomans writes that a 27-year-old Fort Worth man was, according to his own father, who called police, planning to execute a mass shooting in the style of the recent Odessa attack. He withdrew hundreds of dollars from his account and began making the rounds of local gun stores.

But there was a problem: He failed the required background checks, so the gun stores couldn’t sell to him. The man then tried to purchase a gun in a private sale, but by that point the Fort Worth Police Department’s crisis team was able to track him down.

It was that delay, the delay caused by the would-be mass shooter being rejected after failing background checks, that gave police the time they needed to find him after being tipped off by his father. Without the background checks, he would have succeeded in arming himself for his plans at the very first gun shop he visited.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/10/1884605/-Texas-mass-shooting-averted-police-able-to-find-man-after-background-checks-delayed-his-plans