Gabby Giffords pushes universal background checks; forgets her shooter passed background check...

Backgrounds checks didn't make a difference in stopping Jared Loughner. Loughner should have been in an institution. That should be the issue.

Gabby Giffords: Join the fight for safer U.S. — NY Daily News

[snip]What they will do is create one fair system for all gun buyers, instead of the giant loophole we have now. Right now, we have one system where responsible gun owners take a background check — my husband, Mark, took one just last month, and it took 5 minutes and 36 seconds. I remember waiting a lot longer than that for the subway to take me to my office when I lived in New York City! And then we have a second system for those who don’t want to take a background check. Those people — criminals, or people suffering from mental illness, like the young man who shot me — can buy as many guns as they want on the Internet or at a gun show, no questions asked.

That doesn’t make sense. We know how to fix it — by establishing a universal background check system. And yet some of our elected officials are not listening. Some even say this legislation shouldn’t get a vote in the United States Congress.[snip]