Here's the facts; the guns were
purchased legally and Stephen Paddock passed all the background
checks – See Newsweek!
Mr. Paddock was unknown to the police
or the FBI as he had only one parking ticket on his 'record'.
'Paddock had no criminal record beyond a routine citation
several years ago that was handled in court.' Excerpt from a CBS
story!
What is known is that Mr. Paddock did
modify some of the rifles to become fully automatic – which is
illegal. Mr. Paddock also clandestinely moved the rifles and the ammo into a hotel room
which was also against hotel rules.
Finally, Mr. Paddock did cold-bloodily, and in a
manner that exhibited careful planning and which required much work be done, well before the first shot was ever fired.... Something is not right here!
What screams out here, to me, is the fact that
no sane man would ever have done such a thing – EVER! And perhaps
that is what is wrong with my Nation today. We have a porous or wholly
lacking mental health evaluation process for those people who would
buy guns or other weapons that can kill! As a matter of fact, I would promote new
regulations that would not only require gun owners to pass periodic
mental evaluations, but which would expand that effort to include any
man or woman or child who desires a driver license! A truck
filled with explosives could have done a lot more killing in Vegas
and had done so elsewhere in the world! Because, Liberals, you see
that mental illness has played a strong role in other mass killings
and I would not be surprised to see that in play here!
As an aside; I have to wonder how many
of our Congressmen could pass even a rudimentary mental competency
test, if one were given ?
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