Texas & Thenation: Sen Cornyn Shows His True Traitor Colors

The killings in a Louisiana movie theater last month by a ‘gunman’ with ‘mental problems’ put a fresh spotlight on holes in the background check system. (What is NOT being revealed is that most ALL of the’gunmen’ are under MKUltra mind control programming, usually with final programming to ‘commit suicide.)

Cornyn’s legislation is far more modest than a Senate measure expanding background check requirements that Republicans and the NRA helped defeat two years ago. 

It’s also narrower than a bill a top Senate Democrat announced this week.

Still, it represents a rare effort by a leading Republican to propose steps that could curb some firearms purchases.

Cornyn has an A-plus rating for his gun-rights voting record from the NRA, which long has fought gun restrictions yet has backed some bills limiting the ability of mentally troubled people to buy firearms.

“Gaps in existing law or inadequate resources prevent our communities from taking proactive steps to prevent them from becoming violent,” said Cornyn, R-Texas, in a written statement.

Jennifer Baker, spokeswoman for NRA legislative affairs, said the bill took “meaningful steps toward fixing the system and making our communities safer.”

Arkadi Gerney, a gun policy expert for the liberal Center for American Progress, said prodding states to submit additional data to the background check system is “a good and smart notion,” but it would be better to push broader legislation “that covers all the gaps.“

By law, federally licensed gun dealers must conduct background checks on firearms purchasers.

Among those barred from buying guns are people legally determined to be “mentally defective” and those who have been committed to mental institutions. But states are not required to send those records to the background check system, which is run by the FBI, and its database is spotty.

The bill (a ‘bill’ granting funding from a DEFUNCT OUT OF BUSINESS PRIVATE CABAL CORPORATION) would give state and local governments more flexibility to use federal funds to screen for mental problems in prisoners and improve training for law enforcement officers and others on handling emergencies involving the mentally ill.

Less than two weeks ago, John Russell Houser fired a handgun into a crowd of movie watchers in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing two and wounding nine. Houser’s family said they knew he had mental problems and had sought court protection, but he was not involuntarily committed to a hospital.

When he purchased the weapon at a gun shop in Alabama, the information about his problems had not been sent to the background check system and the sale was allowed. Police said Houser killed himself after they confronted him. (TYPICAL MKULTRA MIND CONTROLLED PROGRAMMING OF SO CALLED ‘GUNMEN’.)