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In reply to the discussion: Why are folks more concerned about guns than the loss of lives! [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)People don't seem to get it. Why the Newtown pleas fell on deaf ears.
A background check used at more places would not have prevented Newtown, and Newtown did not happen because he was able to get a private gun at a gun show. The guns were legally obtained (presumably with a background check) by his mother, is my understanding. There was nothing in the mother's background that would have prevented her from passing any background check.
It's like showing dead children resulting from a runaway Lexus that had a fault accelerator, when you're trying to get a bill passed that requires background checks for buying a Lexus. The same instrument is involved, but the background check is unrelated to the cause of the death of the children.
It was the wrong tack to take, and I said so early on.