When you fuckers gonna WAKE UP!!?????
"Bush Kills Second Amendment for Veterans
Richard Simon
Los Angeles Times
January 8, 2008
A rare piece of gun legislation finds the National Rifle Association and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence on the same side, and President Bush signed such a bill Tuesday.
The measure, Congress’ response to last year’s Virginia Tech shootings, is the first significant federal legislation in years aimed at tightening gun laws. It seeks to expand the federal database used to screen gun buyers to include the estimated 2 million-plus people, including felons and mentally ill individuals, who are ineligible to buy firearms.
But the measure has created an unusual rift among gun-control groups. The bill represents a shift from the last major gun measure. The legislation signed Tuesday, designed to improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, was the first gun measure to emerge since Democrats took over the House and the Senate a year ago. It was passed last month, in the waning hours of the 2007 legislative session.
Efforts to strengthen the background-check system have been debated for years, but the movement gained momentum after Seung-hui Cho killed 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech before taking his own life April 16 in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. He had been ordered by a court to undergo outpatient mental-health treatment and should have been barred from buying the two handguns he used in the rampage, but his name was never entered into the background-check system.
Ever hear of "Operation Bluebird," readers?
A White House-ordered review of the Virginia Tech shootings found that “accurate and complete information on individuals prohibited from possessing firearms is essential to keep guns out of the wrong hands.”
The new law takes a carrot-and-stick approach to get states to report people ineligible to buy guns. It authorizes up to $250 million a year for five years to states to help pay the cost of providing the records and then threatens to withhold federal anti-crime funds if the states fail to act.
That would be known as EXTORTION were I to do that to you, readers.
Withhold something you need.
