Fox News published an article about the recent shooting in Washington’s
naval base. After the shooting of 20 children, another shooting now in a
Washington Navy base happened leaving 13 navy civilians dead. Aaron Alexis had
a record for being mentally ill. There had been some records where he said to
be hearing voices, and police records of him arguing with people to an extreme
where he started shooting. This recent case is probably going to put some
restrictions on who can buy guns/weapons. There were a lot of promises after
the shooting in the school of Connecticut but most of those laws/bills were
never passed. There has been a slight change on the overall background checks
but not for the mentally ill. A recent bill was just defeated in congress where
they wanted to expand the background checks on people. The state legislatures have been more
successful than the federal govt. in passing mental health laws. This can be
important because the more you know about a certain individual, the safer the
community can be.
