Background check failed in Navy Yard shooting. Why are left wingers pushing for background checks?

Question

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/contractor-would-not-have-hired-aaron-alexis-if-past-brushes-with-law-had-been-known/2013/09/17/e5bc83da-1faa-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html
Military’s background check system failed to block gunman with a history of arrests


Military’s background check system failed to block gunman with a history of arrests



Military’s background check system failed to block gunman with a history of arrests


Military’s background check system failed to block gunman with a history of arrests



YES, A BACKGROUND CHECK FAILED TO STOP THIS SHOOTING

So if a background check wouldn't have prevented this shooting (because IT DIDN'T prevent this shooting), why do liberals want more background checks?

Answer 1

Background check failed. Why are cons fighting enhanced background checks?

Answer 2

An employment or security background check have NOTHING to do with one for a firearms possession request. You have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, meaning such checks are necessarily limited. You have NO right to a job or a security clearance, so those background checks can be as "penetrating" as necessary and economically justified. If someone has a security clearance for a DoD contractor's job, you would certainly HOPE that their previous arrest records would have been at least evaluated. Arrests, however, are not convictions. Only a felony conviction would be relevant for a firearms background check, if you're unfortunate enough to live in a state that has any background check at all...

Answer 3

O.K. good. now we're getting somewhere.

So the problem is not the absence of a background check, but with implementation.



Failed background checks should absolutely prevent somebody from getting a firearm.



Which means there's a need to come down on straw sellers and a need for (you're not going to like this) a national database. So that a failed background check actually means you're not allowed to access a firearm.

Answer 4

Maybe the military needs to improve its method of conducting background checks. That's the obvious answer.

Answer 5

That isnt the background check that allowed him to get a gun

Answer 6

They are down playing the failure of law enforcement to do it's job to justify sticking it to people who are not up to no good.

Answer 7

Because it does not matter if the laws they want to pass will actually do anything to stop the next attack, as long as they do SOMETHING to make it harder for law abiding citizens to get a gun. It is not about stopping the shootings, it is about taking gun ownership away from all Americans.

Answer 8

That's why. The checks are too weak. We need stronger.

Answer 9

Maybe people who hear voices in their head should be barred from owning a firearm.

Answer 10

sounds like affirmative action at work , mentally ill black man gets given a job he can't do , gets sacked and loses control - it's all about "fairness"