Anyone catch the 60 minutes program today about the laws that ban the sale of firearms to people with a history of severe mental illness?
I was absolutely dumbfounded and my jaw on the ground when Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America had this to say:
Fully Story here.
I just had to stop in my tracks. The NRA wants the introduced legislation that would provide funds for states to collect and maintain records on the mentally ill and punish them if failed to make the information available to the FBI database.
How can Mr. Pratt believe that guns don't kill people, people kill people and still believe that it is alright to put a leathal weapon in the hands of a mentally disturbed individual?
Enlighten me if I am not seeing the whole story. Did anyone else see
the story?
I was absolutely dumbfounded and my jaw on the ground when Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America had this to say:
You might think that there would be little opposition to such a move, but you'd be wrong. The most vocal is Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, which has 375,000 members and sees nothing wrong with the mentally ill buying guns.
"We think this is simply another way of eliminating another large group of people from gun ownership in this country," Pratt argues.
"That large group, two million-plus...are people who have been involuntarily committed," Kroft remarks.
"We think those are two million people who you can't say that, you know anything about what their future behavior is going to be," Pratt says.
Fully Story here.
I just had to stop in my tracks. The NRA wants the introduced legislation that would provide funds for states to collect and maintain records on the mentally ill and punish them if failed to make the information available to the FBI database.
How can Mr. Pratt believe that guns don't kill people, people kill people and still believe that it is alright to put a leathal weapon in the hands of a mentally disturbed individual?
Enlighten me if I am not seeing the whole story. Did anyone else see
the story?