Mark Kelly Unmasks Wayne LaPierre

Mark Kelly, husband of Gabrielle Giffords, revealed the NRA position on guns for the sham that it is, as Greg Sargent notes. LaPierre’s argument that that there’s no need to expand background checks because criminals won’t cooperate was shot down,as Kelly testified:

The Tuscon shooter was an admitted drug user. He was rejected from the U.S. Army because of his drug use. He was clearly mentally ill. And when he purchased that gun in November, his plan was to assassinate my wife and commit mass murder at that Safeway in Tucson. He was a criminal. Because of his drug use, and because of what he was planning on doing. But because of these gaps in the mental health system, in this case, those 121,000 records, I admit did not include a record on him. But it could have.

And if it did, he would have failed that background check. he would have likely gone to a gun show, or a private seller, and avoided that background check. But if we close that gun show loophole, if we require private sellers to complete a background check, and we get those 121,000 records and others into the systems, we will prevent gun crime. That is an absolute truth. It would have happened in Tucson. My wife would not have been sitting here today if we had stronger background checks.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.