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While the error is heartbreaking, someone that high up admitting culpability is a nice change.
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Comey’s comments Friday appeared to remove any doubt that current gun laws should have prevented Roof from purchasing a gun. “We are all sick this happened,” Comey said. “We wish we could turn back time.”
Like it has been said over and over and over again:
WE DO NOT NEED NEW ANTI GUN LAWS, WE NEED TO FIX AND APPLY THOSE WE ALREADY HAVE!!!
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The sooner we have adequate and well enforced gun control laws the bettter.
Even if Roof had been stopped when he bought from a store, he could just have waltzed over to a gun show.
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ChURch, brother. If ONLY the FEderAl GOVERnMEnt Would DO IT’s JOB aND enFORCE the LAWs that VIOLATe Our CONSTITUTIOnaL RIghts FOR EverYone TO haVE GUNs EverYWhere, ThEse PROBLEms wOULD NEver COme UP.
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I thought Roof’s father gave him the pistol.
Is that incorrect?
Yes. His father gave him money for his birthday, which he used, along with some of his own money, to go and buy the gun.
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A repeated non sequitur is no less a non sequitur.
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I have a feeling we are going to find a whole lot of these “record-keeping errors” and will then find that they are not record-keeping errors at all.
“Comey said that Roof’s admission to narcotics possession in February was not properly entered into the agency’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System due to a record-keeping error, according to the Post.”
No matter how much you jump up and down like a toddler screaming “NO NEW GUN LAWZ”, your temper tantrum won’t change the fact that we need newer, tougher gun laws.
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Wrong Puddles/beej. If someone like you is able to open carry then we certainly do need stronger gun laws and background checks.
What in the world is an “anti-gun law” Mr Hodnobeej?
Is that the new NRA group-think meme?
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This is something that must be fixed in the system then.
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So you want to extend the non-working (apparently) background checks to close the “gun shows loopholes”, a Democratic meme?
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Oh FFS. Is today “Feed Crazy Wayne More Irrational Talking Points” Day?
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Wow…I should have scrolled down before my first posting. Is that you, Crazy Wayne?
Number of Background checks in 2014: 20,968,547…average since 2010 is about 17,500,000/year.
Number of clerical/administrative errors leading to a purchase that resulted in a mass killing: 1
Your conclusion: “Background checks don’t work.”
GFY…deep deep deep in your rectum.
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I guess this proves, conclusively, that any laws, state or federal, regarding guns are worthless and ineffective and must be repealed.
No other conclusions may be drawn from this.
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I don’t see any reason why we can’t fix the laws we already have and pass new ones, as well.
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Or bought one from any one of the thousands of other racists nearby. They’re not rare, alas.
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Good point. Since criminals don’t obey gun laws, all gun laws should be repealed.
What about all of the other laws that criminals don’t obey? Should we get rid of them, too?
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An error in the background check process means we should throw it out? The NICS background check system has worked 700,000 times to deny people guns but it still wan’t enough to save a school full of kindergartners.
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