"We're still selling handguns to crazy people."

[Echotrail]

Yes, we are. Thank you for pointing that out, Senator.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3062726&page=2

Obama also reiterated his criticism of the system for background checks for gun purchases after the massacre at Virginia Tech.

"We're still selling handguns to crazy people," Obama said. "We're supposed to have a system that these people are screened out. What's clear is the background check system in this case failed entirely."

Seung-Hui Cho, the gunman who shot 32 people at Virginia Tech on Monday before killing himself, had a history of mental health problems but still was able to buy two guns.

[valerief]

1. Just like Judgeships. nt

[MethuenProgressive]

2. Thanks, NRA!

"The NRA Brags That They'll Work Out Of President GW Bush's Oval Office"

www.commondreams.org/headlines/050400-01.htm

[Mr. Earl]

3. Can

someone buy a gun if you're not crazy?

[jody]

4. Congress has not funded nor monitored NICS to insure people who have been "adjudicated as a mental

defective or been committed to a mental institution" are in the NICS data base.

NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System)

I don't believe Cho was ever "adjudicated as a mental defective or been committed to a mental institution".

If that's so, perhaps Congress should consider revising the current law so more people are identified.