It's taken nearly eight years but for the first time, I agree with something the President is doing.
I do not understand the reluctance to close background check loopholes. I do not understand the reluctance to deny the mentally ill access to weapons. I think the NRA is completely wrong on both these issues and have been for a long time.
I know for some the idea of the mentally ill individual going on a rampage is a "newer" phenomena. Sadly, it isn't. The one that sticks in my memory the most is San Ysidro event in July 1984. I read the details of that event in an after action report and never forgot it.
I think part of the problem of why some people are tone deaf to this issue is because we sanitize the events so we don't offend sensibilities. If the general citizenry had to face and marinate in the horrific details of these events, I don't think there would be such push back on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.