Great reporting MSNBC, home of Keith Olbermann, no less!
Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly after last year's massacre at Virginia Tech to make it harder for anyone with a history of mental illness to buy guns, fortifying what were already some of the nation's toughest weapons laws.
But the new measure does not take effect until June. And whether it would have prevented last week's bloodbath at Northern Illinois University is far from clear.
So far MSNBC has mislead it's readers with a titillating title. But wait, there's more!
But state Sen. Dan Kotowski, a sponsor of the law that will require more detailed reporting to state officials about those who have received mental health treatment, said the sketchy information about Kazmierczak's medical history makes it impossible to know if he would have fallen under the law.
So, we have a knee jerk reaction to a tragedy by making laws that 
may not have even prevented the tragedy has it been enacted before it happened?
How the FUCK do lawmakers think there?
But even under Illinois' new law, it's not clear whether Kazmierczak said or did anything that would have triggered the reporting requirement and made him ineligible to buy guns.
So, you're making a law that may not even fix what you thought was broken?
"This law is more comprehensive than most," the Democrat said Monday.
Oh, well THERE'S your problem, it's being thrown out there by a Democrat. A political party that seems to think that more laws restricting law abiding citizens Constitutional rights that they disagree with is an ok thing to do.
John Boch, like many other gun-rights activists in Illinois, said the answer is for the state to loosen its gun laws, not tighten them, so that students could have been able to shoot back during the NIU attack. Illinois is one of only two states with an outright ban on carrying concealed weapons. Wisconsin is the other.
"This guy at NIU committed murder, for god's sake," Boch said. "What are a few more gun laws going to do to protect human life? There are a lot of laws he violated in killing those kids, but one more law won't make a difference to guys like that."
Exactly. Have any of you Democrats out there ever wonder why there's never any "mass shootings" at gun shows, police stations, pawn shops, and other areas that are typically armed? It's because law abiding citizens were able to shoot back.
Now, only if Mrs. Wakely will come back with a brilliant counterpoint to my argument, I think it'll round out an otherwise uneventful day.
Travis
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