05-09-2023, 07:07 PM
(05-09-2023, 12:55 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: We may very well find this is another instance of the military not informing the federal government of the discharge reasons. I don't recall which shooter it was that the Air Force failed to report what would have made the shooter a prohibited person. The Parkland shooter would have been a prohibited person if the school district and local law enforcement would have done their jobs properly. This is why I am dead set against any new laws, we don't even enforce the ones we have. The DA here in LA routinely charges possession of a concealed firearm as a misdemeanor and refuses to file firearm enhancements on other crimes. Can't have it both way folks.
It could've even been that the military may have been like "look, we'll take it easy on this guy because he is going to have a rough go of things." But then he slips through the cracks. I get it that people complain about the impersonal way that bureaucracy makes people follow the rules but this is the sort of thing that may have been prevented if people had just carried out the policies as they were supposed to.
There is a time and a place for discretion, but far too often we see it in times and places it should not be.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
