THE SYSTEM FAILED....

Once again we have in the news more gun violence.. mass murders. Once again, the call to disarm…

While I am not big on guns, myself… I do understand that guns are a necessary evil.   Think about it.. you disarm all the law biding citizens… so who does that leave?  The criminals, of course. You surely don’t think that the criminals are going to turn in their guns, do you? 

So what is there to be done.. As we have seen thru the time.. that is the 6 million dollar question with no answer..  There are laws out there.. and if they were followed and if they were actually enforced, we surely could cut down some.  If we were to just follow the policies it would help.  

One of the biggest is the mental problem. That has to be brought back in and something done.

There are several where the rules were followed….but the person had mental problems that could have flagged it. The boy that killed his mother.. who stupidly gave her son the combo to her gun safe, even knowing he had problems.  And the teachers and pupils lost their lives in Sandy Hook…  There are others, where they followed the rules and got guns..  But again, family and friends knew there were problems..

But in Texas.. the system failed.. the government in the form of Air Force, had failed the gun dealer and the whole town.  There were so many flags .. flaming flags.. the man would never have be able to buy that gun in any gun store..  But you say.. but he could have found a gun some how.. maybe on line.. a friend of a friend.. and etc.  But the thing is… when he went in to buy that gun.. and the gun shop owner saw his name on the DO NOT SELL TO LIST.. or what ever they call it..  He could see that there was the flaming flags and called the police and told them.. that the man was there to buy a gun.. The police could have put him on a watch list.  Besides this man never should have been loose anyway.. the beating of a child.. escape from a mental unit?  Wouldn’t these been enough to have him held?  But at the very least, in this day and age, he surely should have been on the police to watch list.. especially when he just was trying to buy a gun.

The system fail.. and these people had to pay their price.