11-20-17 Failed Bureaucracy and Mass Shootings


Daily Jot: Failed bureaucracy and mass shootings - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
National Public Radio (NPR) has revealed that Texas church killer Devin Patrick Kelley was prohibited by law to legally possess a firearm, but his background check was incomplete when he bought the weapon he used to kill 26 people in Sutherland Springs, TX.  Retired Col. Don Christensen, the Air Force's chief prosecutor at the time Kelley was court-martialed, told NPR that Kelley "fractured his baby stepson's skull." Kelley was sentenced to 12 months for assaulting his wife and "intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm" on the child. But the Air Force did not enter the Kelley's info into the National Criminal Information Center database. Thus, a mass-murderer slipped through the government bureaucracy.
There are two points here that deserve attention: 1) Kelley was convicted of a crime of domestic assault punishable for up to five years confinement; and 2) The majority of mass shootings are linked to perpetrators of domestic violence. Federal law prohibits firearm possession of anyone convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, and for anyone convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence under a no-exception provision for military or law enforcement. The omission of this conviction in the federal database allowed Kelley to slip through the system and purchase the very gun that he used to massacre 26 men, women, and children.
Additionally, Kelley's arrest, domestic violence conviction and bad conduct discharge should have raised red flags to authorities. An analysis of FBI data by Everytown for Gun Safety indicates that the majority of mass shootings are related to domestic violence. The organization reports that from 2009-2016 there have been 156 mass shootings in the US resulting in 848 fatalities and 339 wounded. Some 54% of those shootings were connected to domestic violence; over a third involved a shooter who was prohibited by law from possessing firearms, and 42% of the shooters exhibited warning signs before acting-threats, substance abuse, acts of violence, violations of protective orders, etc.
The leftists are screaming for disarming citizens to stop gun violence, but the very system they rely upon (criminal background checks and mental health detection) doesn't work-people slip through the bureaucracy and/or find guns to use anyway. Bureaucracy cannot protect the innocent from those with no regard for law or life. Before he was betrayed in the garden, Jesus instructed his disciples in Luke 22:36: "and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." Self-defense, preservation of life, and the protection of the innocent from the lawless are foundational to civil society. Good people who legally own and carry guns often save lives when bureaucracy and leftist utopian concepts fail.

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