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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (95454)	4/19/2007 2:45:21 PM
From: JeffA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

You lie. He was never pronounced "insane." What a lying dolt you are.

To: American Spirit who wrote (95454)	4/20/2007 5:50:30 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 173976

AS, you never have the facts straight... BLACKSBURG, VA. — One question many people are asking after the shootings at Virginia Tech is how someone so deranged could have legally purchased firearms. The answer is twofold: Although the gunman, Seung-hui Cho, had been accused of harassing women, he had not been convicted of a crime. And although he was considered mentally ill, he had not been committed to a mental institution or declared mentally incapacitated. In other words, his behavior before the shootings did not raise loud enough alarms with either law enforcement or the mental health system, the two institutions that might have kept him from buying weapons. In Virginia, a person can be denied the right to purchase a firearm if he or she has been convicted of a felony, judged mentally incapacitated or hospitalized involuntarily for mental illness. In Cho's case, his criminal record is believed to have been clean. Although he was taken into custody by campus police in December 2005 in part on suspicion of harassing two female classmates, neither woman pressed charges. Cho's mental health history is murkier. At the same time that he was accused of harassment, an acquaintance alerted authorities that Cho was suicidal. Campus police brought him to a mental health clinic in Blacksburg for evaluation, and on the basis of a preliminary screening he was involuntarily held overnight at a mental health facility in Christiansburg. Liar. Cho was pronounced insane at college. They just could not hold him for more than 72 hours in the insane asylum. That kind of info is CRITICAL in all background checks of potential gun owners. Even more important than a criminal record, unless it's a very serious criminal record in which case the crook wouldn't even try to buy a gun legally. Why should he when he can find all kinds of corrupt gun dealers to sell him whatever he needs off the books?