I thought with the passing of the Brady Bill into law in 1993, if you had a history of mental illness like this young man certainly did, you could not purchase a handgun in the U.S.? Did the gunshop let him buy the guns illegally?
2007-04-18 18:17:12 · 8 answers · asked by Doogie 4 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
This is for cellopro: Actually it's the Democrats that want gun control laws.
2007-04-18 18:49:11 · update #1
You are right. However when Cho was taken to a mental hospital on December 13, 2005, he was released in less than 24 hours.
Although Cho was not a US citizen, as a legal permanent resident alien (he was Korean), Cho could legally purchase firearms.
Cho picked up the first gun, a Walther P22, a .22-caliber handgun on February 9th at J-N-D Pawnbrokers in Blacksburg. Owner Joe Dowdy said Cho actually purchased the gun from an out-of-state dealer and arranged to pick it up at the pawn shop.
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6388845&nav=S6aK
Cho bought a second handgun, a semiautomatic 9mm Glock 19, on March 13 at a Roanoke, Va. gun store. Markell, the owner of the gun store, said Cho's gun and a box of 50 bullets cost $571.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/massacre_gun_57.html
2007-04-18 18:41:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He bought the guns legally because the college was too nervous about the political correctness of presing stalking or arson charges against him,and they like to think tehy are their own law, they don't think the law enforcement community needs to know about students having mental issues, so he had no record to show up on a background check. But with all the thought he put into this he coudl have secured one illegally (nearby Wash. DC is murder capital of the country after all, nothing but illegal handguns there) or just used another weapon or made one. People too timid to file charges or enforce the rules equally and fairly costs lives, that's the bottom line.
2007-04-18 18:24:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No he bought them legally. He entered the country in 1992 so was in the country long enough to buy one. He didn't take any counselling services offered to him atleast I don't think so there was no proof he was mentally unstable. The gun store owner said that Cho looked like a clean cut college kid and was 23 years old so he couldn't see any reason to justify not selling him one.
2007-04-18 18:22:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was asked whether he had mental illness, and he said no. They didn't check. He lied, because he had already been hospitalized involuntarily one time.
I knew a paranoid schizophrenic who bought a gun after threatening her friend's life. Her friend called the police and told them about it. They went to the mentally ill woman's house and took the gun away from her without incident.
2007-04-18 18:22:41 · answer #4 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did the gunshop let him buy the guns illegally?
-Yes obviously. That's what happens when you have a Democrat behind the counter of a gun shop, with their typical "care free, don't worry about it" attitude. Checking things like mental illness should be just as normal and repetitious to him as shooting a gun, AS IN HE KNOWS HOW TO SHOOT A GUN ;-).
2007-04-18 18:34:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
He bought 'em legally. He was never actually diagnosed with a mental illness and had no criminal record.
2007-04-18 18:25:18 · answer #6 · answered by Warren D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't have a mental history per se.
2007-04-18 18:20:40 · answer #7 · answered by Call Me Babs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT??????!!!!!! You gotta be kidding, cellopro30078!
2007-04-18 18:38:27 · answer #8 · answered by mithril 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋