The Gentleman

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Why a 53 year-old lawyer who never shot a gun joined the NRA

The perspective of a man who thinks gun control is not the problem.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/why_a_53_year_old_big_city_lawyer_who_has_never_shot_a_gun_joined_the_nra.html

Excerpt from the article: “Elliot Rodger, who killed six and wounded 13 during a 2014 killing spree near a California college, had legally purchased three guns and passed a federal background check. He also met several other requirements in a state with among the toughest gun control laws in the country. Yet California has some of the weakest laws in the country when it comes to treating and committing mentally ill persons. As such, despite being reported to a county mental health agency and police for posting alarming videos on YouTube, Rodger was not committed. So in his case, it wasn’t the gun laws, it was the lack of common sense mental commitment laws, that led to tragedy.”