Anyone who purchases a firearm should have a background check done, and there should be a license required that proves that the person buying the firearm went through an extensive safety course.
That being said, this guy was a med student. He is obviously smart, so passing an extensive gun safety course wouldn't be a problem. Unless there is something we don't know, the background check wouldn't have kept him from purchasing the firearm either.
Do we even know where he got the AK-47 from? There is a huge black market in the US, with drug cartels selling drugs and firearms in literally every single city in the US. How will any kind of gun control or gun law stop that?
Its the same issue with the Mayerthorpe shootings. We had a gun registry in place, we have tighter gun control, we have a strict buying process, and it still didn't help. Because at the end of the day, you can't regulate people from going insane. And that is exactly what happened here.
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