While I was watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart the other night, I agreed very much with one of the segments about gun control and the Navy yard shooter. Stewart talked about, in a depressingly funny way, how the shooter had been discharged from the navy for gun incidents, and had called the police a month earlier saying that his microwave was talking to him. This shooter is the ultimate example of how poor our federal gun laws are. While I don't think that the federal government should have all the power with gun laws, I do think that there should be at least a cohesive national background check system. If nothing else, can we at least make the gun laws to where the man with 10 years of documented, serious mental illness, 2 prior gun incidents, and a phone call a month earlier to the police explaining how he can hear his microwave talking to him, cannot get a gun?
Here is the video:
http://m.comedycentral.com/tds_video.rbml?id=depressingly-familiar-post-tragedy-analysis
* disclaimer- slight liberal bias present.
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