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   From: klausschadenfreude@yahoo.com   
      
   >obvious troll  wrote in talk.politics.guns :   
      
   >"How about requiring a co-signer for your gun license? This could be a   
   >family member, a friend, a co-worker, anyone who could swear he knew   
   >no reason you shouldn’t have a gun."   
   >   
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   >   
   >"Colorado shooting: Holmes was so odd, how did he get guns legally?"   
   >   
   >   
   >Op-Ed   
   >By John Kelly   
   >July 23,  2012   
   >   
   >In a way, it would almost be better if the person who allegedly killed   
   >12 people in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater had been a terrorist.   
   >That, at least, we could understand.   
   >   
   >I mean, the terrorists are crazy, too, but at least it’s become a   
   >familiar, semi-graspable crazy. It’s a well-organized insanity that   
   >involves networks of other conspirators, coded messages, suicide   
   >videos, etc. Each step of the way toward their planned martyrdom is an   
   >opportunity for infiltration or disruption.   
   >   
   >Aurora movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes, 24, is making his   
   >first court appearance and has reddish orange hair.   
   >   
   >Aurora movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes, 24, is making his   
   >first court appearance and has reddish orange hair.   
   >   
   >In Colorado, grief over theater shooting:?After gunfire killed 12 and   
   >injured dozens, residents console one another.   
   >   
   >It’s much harder to stop a single, committed person whose brain   
   >chemistry is tragically unbalanced, as seems to be the case here.   
   >   
   >News reports have said that James Holmes bought his arsenal legally.   
   >But did he really? The mentally ill aren’t supposed to own guns, and   
   >is there anyone who thinks this guy wasn’t wrong in the head? He   
   >supposedly was odd enough to creep out a Colorado gun range owner.   
   >   
   >A report last year from the advocacy group Mayors Against Illegal Guns   
   >found that states aren’t doing enough to stop the mentally ill from   
   >getting firearms. After the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, the Wall   
   >Street Journal reported that the bar for banning someone from owning a   
   >gun is awfully high.   
   >   
   >I’ll say the same thing I thought after Seung Hui Cho went on his   
   >murderous rampage at Virginia Tech: How about requiring a co-signer   
   >for your gun license? This could be a family member, a friend, a co-   
   >worker, anyone who could swear he knew no reason you shouldn’t have a   
   >gun.   
   >   
   >I’m sure it wouldn’t stop every mentally ill person bent on   
   >destruction, but surely it would stop the friendless loners — or at   
   >least deprive them of an easy way to kill.   
   >   
   >There are probably Second Amendment absolutists who would say this   
   >measure would be too much of an affront to our constitutional rights.   
   >And so we’ll just continue to accept that the price for having a well-   
   >regulated militia is that homicidal maniacs will be able to buy guns   
   >as easily as buying tickets to a movie.   
   >   
   >http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/colorado-shooting-holmes-wa   
   -so-odd-how-did-he-get-guns-legally/2012/07/23/gJQA05I94W_story.html   
      
   How about a co-signer before you vote?   
      
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