Get On the Same Page, Damn it!

I am seriously not getting this...seriously.

I am reading the front page of the newspaper. Well, I should say the back page.....of the front page.......whatever. But, I reading an article about Federal and State Laws banning the sale of firearms to the mentally ill.

So, how did he get not only one gun but two guns? (Seung-Hui Cho) Don't get me started on the other matter regarding ammo........

According to the article: " Federal law prohibits anyone who has be 'adjudicated as a mental defective' (shouldn't that read "as mentalLY defective?) as well as those who have been involuntarily committed to a mental healh facility, from purchasing a gun."

Sounds good......mentally ill people should not own guns.......(my world? Hand guns should be illegal!!!!! Done Period. End of subject). Yes, I know: buying a gun, on the streets, is akin to buying crack, weed, and whatever else criminal folk sell. I have heard ALL of the "rebuttals" to my argument..but, it still doesn't change my view.

The best argument I have heard, or I should say the most amusing was about how I would want a gun in my home or had wished for one if someone was to illegally enter and rape,mame, brutallize my kids or me. Sounds good in theory...but reality?

Ok...this was back when my boys were younger and common sense dictates that we keep guns out kids' reach...common sense. Well, to put a gun out of my boyz reach would mean that it would be out of MY reach. I am 4"11. What the hell good would that do me?

Beg the assailant to wait, while I get a ladder, fish through darkness and cluttered years of junk in my closet while I searched for my gun, half asleep? I think I would be dead before even remotely feeling the gun! Please!

Baseball bats can do the trick and they are in a few convenient places throughout my house. The dumb-ass dog is also a good deterrent. Sometimes, I think that is his only purpose in my life. Otherwise? If it wasn't for his "protection" and the boyz who love him? He would have another home. (He's "slightly" destructive and I am a cat person). Now he's best friends with Sweetie..........I can't win!

Back to the "article"........Ok, we know he was ordered.....ORDERED.....to seek outpatient treatment and he was declared to be mentally ill and a danger to himself and others......but for some reason Virginia has a different "form" for reporting this information to the Feds.

I know I am not an attorney, nor a Political Science major but I do recall.......federal law superceeds state law. Am I correct?

Virginia is also the leading state in reporting disqualifications based on mental health criteria .....but their "law" or statute is worded slightly different from the federal statute and only addresses THEIR state's criteria.

According to this article, "authorities" in Virginia used the terms that fit Virginia law but weren't thinking about the federal law. Perhaps, no one even knew about these federal regulations.

Hmmmm......I can not just say a lack of communication.....nah.......that's isn't right.

I feel some heads are going to roll on this one.

I am not blaming the bureaucrats.....I hold Mr. Cho 100% resposnsible for his acts, but, seriously? Can we all get on the same page? Seriously!

Do we need another senseless act of violence before we get in synch?