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  TechnologyExpert1 year, 2 months ago

  The sensitive talks began in April, days after a mentally ill gunman killed 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech University. The shooter, Seung Hui Cho, had been judicially ordered to submit to a psychiatric evaluation, which should have disqualified him from buying handguns. But the state of Virginia never forwarded that information to the federal National Instant Check System (NICS), and the massacre exposed a loophole in the 13-year-old background-check program.

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  zaph221 year, 2 months ago

  "Under the agreement, participating states would be given monetary enticements for the first time to keep the federal background database up to date, as well as penalties for failing to comply."

  participating states??? If this law doesn't make each state participate (comply) with this law what good is it? Isn't that the very problem, what happened in Virginia that brought this law about? So if states participate on a voluntary basis how will this law change anything? And how can the Federal Government penalize any state when the state officials could just say they had decided not to participate?

  I must be missing something here, I can't figure out how this law would change anything if the states can opt out if they want too. At least that is what "participating states" says to me.

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    alakazam1 year, 2 months ago

    I think folks need to just back up off other peoples rights.

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      zaph221 year, 2 months ago

      I'm just talking about the logic, or in this case the seeming lack of logic, of this law. You have no idea my opinion on gun control do you?

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  aniokly1 year, 2 months ago

  There are no good Gun Control bills. I tried to tell people Democrats would try to legislate gun control as soon as they were sworn in. Check who supports this bill. The NRA might have agreed, but they don't speak for me. I will vote my Constitutional conscience.

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  OldRusty1 year, 2 months ago

  Working hard as hell to run background checks on legal ordinary citizens, hell-fire crooks dont buy guns in stores,. How dumb can you get.gang-members dont join the NRA, or vote for the democrats.,gang bangers will get guns when , all the rest of US that abide by the law cant get one.So Wake UP, get your head out of your ass America.

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