Actual Crazy Person Can Buy a Gun

    If there is anything that seems clear about the "drifter" from phoenix City Alabama who shot up a movie theater in Louisiana it is this: he was mentally ill.

      So shouldn't that have prevented him from buying the gun he used?

Nah! Apparently not in Alabama, according to stories today:

"Court records reviewed by The Associated Press strongly suggest Houser should have been reported to the state and federal databases used to keep people with serious mental illnesses from buying firearms, legal experts said.
"It sure does seem like something failed," said Judge Susan Tate, who presides over a probate court in Athens, Georgia, and has studied issues relating to weapons and the mentally ill. "I have no idea how he was able to get a firearm."
                                                                                                           Boston Herald Story

  

   Will the NRA and others fight efforts to block whatever failure allowed Houser to buy the gun? 
     They already support allowing anybody to buy any available gun at a gun show or from an individual without any background check.

HERE is a summary of Alabama gun laws, from an admittedly anti-gun organization.

And, as CBS reported earlier in the month, keep an eye out! There appears to be a contagion effect. Mass shootings often follow each other within 20-days.