Obama keeps repeating that we are obliged to destroy the Bill of Rights – for the sake of the children.
Passing new laws for criminals to ignore serves no purpose. Criminals don’t obey the law – that is why they are called criminals. Lanza violated dozens of existing laws, which did nothing to prevent the massacre.
The one thing he could do which would actually protect children, would be to increase school security. Unlike his brain-damaged ideas, the NRA’s idea is extremely effective and does not depend on compliance by criminals.
Obama hasn’t said one word about increasing security, probably because he isn’t actually interested in preventing what he considers to be politically useful shootings.
If the Republican Party wasn’t so useless, they would demand that a discussion of school security comes first.
To add to your point, how are background checks going to identify people like Adam Lanza, James Holmes, and other mentally unbalanced youths? HIPPA laws prevent any search of medical information without patient permission. Is the government going to require Americans to waive their rights of medical privacy in order to purchase a gun? Unless the government does so how would any background check identify potential mentally ill or people suffering from depression which is the commonality for all of these mass murdering youths. Even if you could identify the medically troubled people, what will be done? James Holmes was seeing a psychiatrist and the psychiatrist following existing law notified the police that Holmes was threatening to commit mass murder. Even with all that information the police didn’t stop Holmes.
I am amazed at how people today are so driven by fear and ignorance that they are willing to give up their rights and freedoms over symbolic gestures that do nothing to prevent past or future mass murders, and only serve to invade their privacy. If Obama submitted a plan to institute a KGB like agency as a way to lower mass murders, I think 47% of Americans would gladly support him.
The psychiatrist reported it to the rent-a-cops known as campus security.