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Bryan
11-30-2007, 10:57 PM
Can we guess where this trend will lead us?

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- States appear to be taking more action to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental health problems in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, new figures show.

Submissions of mentally ill patients' records to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System for gun buyers have more than doubled since the massacre in April, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Currently, states are not required to send reports of mental health problems, which would prohibit buyers from purchasing a gun.

But after the shootings -- when a student with a history of mental health problems killed 32 people before taking his own life -- the number of submissions to the database grew from 174,863 during the first half of the year to 393,957 from July to November.

The number of states submitting the information also grew, from 23 before the Virginia Tech tragedy to 32 after it.

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angelatc
12-01-2007, 08:33 AM
People are sheep.